Ditto.!!!

On the light side, spent 3$ on parts at scap yard..

 

Even jack stands on concrete floors are scary. I can't count all the chips in my concrete floor from all the times my dad used jack stands under his race cars. Any time you jack up one side of the vehicle, you can just watch the jack stand try to move over.

 

Wow! Good score!

Yep, which is why I have pieces of 1/4" plywood that go under the jack stands - in the rare case I use them.

 

You and your two post lift.

 

The two post lift is a Treasure.
My brother and I scarfed up one from a fella that is retired from wrenching.

It is a Ben Pearson. Don't know the yr or model. Have to check tomorrow.

My brother said it was worth the 300$ even with a bad motor on the pump(Lightning hit it,pump good).

 

Three dollars????? I'm sure my yard would be charging me about $50 for that stuff.

 

What he has in his picture cost me about $10 at my favorite junkyard.

 

My ex-favorite yard used to charge $25 for clusters, that was before they changed owners and prices doubled.

 

It was at the scrap(metal) yard. It isn't worth anything to them as scrap.

Plastic is almost give away if you can get there or hang out before they crush it.

These two items were taken out of an old ford car before they crushed it.(Out of Trunk that is)

I don't need them, but I sure wasn't going to let them get lost or destroyed.

The cluster is an AOD instead of C6.
The grille is from a 85 (I believe). Looks like mine,anyway.

 

$3 for a tach/trip auto cluster and a chrome grill insert! That's a bargain at twice the price!
Sweet score.....

 

Oh wow. Three dollars?

Dude... you need to move in at that junk yard! Put a house right on their land if they say you can!

I bet they'll sell you a whole truck for 25!

 

I changed my carburetor on the 300 I6 back to electric choke. I had changed it to manual a little over a yr. ago and it worked well. The problem with the manual choke was ,nobody else in the family could drive the truck. If they did use the choke,they left it pulled on and then wondered why the truck wouldn't run correctly. Then after they got where they were going, they would flood it when trying to restart it. Hopefully this will solve the problem.

 

I wish they would.

Now the old cars and trucks are bringing .10 lb.
If you buy metal from them, they charge .15 lb.
(Plastic and glass is cheap)
A pickup or car weighs around 3-4 K. So 4-6 hundred.

Last year, I bought a 460 with C-6 for my 76.
It weighed a little over 900lb. Do the math..

It is amazing what people sell for junk.

 

Yes, many of the "arts" associated with driving old vehicles have been lost on the 'utes. Many, but fortunately none of our young FTE'ers I'm sure, don't realize that a carb'd vehicle has to have the throttle depressed for the choke to set. Some even on here don't know what the little button to the left on the floor does and complain their high beams don't work. And, many of them don't know a thing about driving a manual transmission and don't care to learn. This inc's the offspring of some FTE'ers and almost inc's my own son, but he says he can drive one - although that may have been more to persuade me to give him Dad's truck than an absolute truth.

 

'utes - as in savages?

You've met my kids??