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Old 07-21-2024, 10:53 AM   #1
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Watch the video - maybe you can
schedule a visit and buy some parts too !

@ https://youtu.be/gOWzchPIJqo?si=8KWURQZTq3ETAZlP


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Old 07-21-2024, 12:20 PM   #2
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That was incredible!!! What a collection!! Thanks..
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If you don't follow Iron Trap on Instagram or check their web page you haven't seen that they have started listing a lot of the A parts from this haul.

https://www.instagram.com/irontrapfi...AyMWRzM210azd3
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Any one remember Lloyd and Shirley Young? Lloyd always told me "Gene when I but a lot of parts I tell people I buy them all, or I don't buy any".
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Old 07-21-2024, 01:53 PM   #5
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Very impressive! Thanks!
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Old 07-21-2024, 08:58 PM   #6
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He must have spent a good part of his life just taking stuff apart.....
Its too bad their not closer to Bert's
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Old 07-21-2024, 11:29 PM   #7
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New england not Pa
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Old 07-22-2024, 12:45 AM   #8
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Thumbs up Life Long Collection Of Model A Parts In Rural Pennsylvania

I picked up some Model A parts
from the Grandfather to transport
at least 10 years ago when
he was still alive.

That day was a “ Church Day “.

That is a day when I leave the
camera/phone in the truck and
just absorb what I am privileged
to see - some folks want their
collections to remain private.


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Old 07-22-2024, 07:21 AM   #9
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There is another collection in North Carolina that is being sold. Lots of original early cars, mostly roadsters. Lots of early parts. Doug was a private guy. Before he died, he told me that he wanted to sell his cars and parts but only through the club he belonged to. I did not like the internet or strangers coming to his house. A life time collection.

We all die eventually. I just sold some surplus stuff at the Asheville meet with the help of my friend Mark. I don't want to leave a mess to my kids or wife when I die, in a few hundred years.
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Old 07-22-2024, 08:07 AM   #10
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Years ago, I went into a barn like that in Missouri. Very rural area.
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Old 07-22-2024, 09:44 AM   #11
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Is this the collection near Angel Falls PA?
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Old 07-22-2024, 09:57 AM   #12
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Is this the collection near Angel Falls PA?
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The collection is actually in rural Massachusetts, not PA.
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Old 07-22-2024, 10:48 AM   #13
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Doug was a private guy. Before he died, he told me that he wanted to sell his cars and parts but only through the club he belonged to.
The problem with this strategy is that Doug didn't actually know many people and didn't come to any events. The pool he had to sell to under his rules was very small. I've met a ton of people and made a lot of contacts by being willing to sell his stuff to almost anyone. The selling creates the community, not the other way around.
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Old 07-22-2024, 11:40 AM   #14
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When it's time for me to tap out, I'm not selling any of my parts stash- I am GIVING it all away. It's just stuff. Why not be a blessing to someone else? Hoping I meet a young person with the same passion for them as mine someday, and then they will get the surprise of a lifetime before I die.

My dad's plan is to swallow a bag of raw popcorn kernels just before he takes is last breath so when they cremate him, he leaves with one last epic practical joke.
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If you watch the movie closely, it is overwhelming. But in reality (discussing this with a guy who was there last summer trying to buy the collection that was listed on Marketplace for $300,000) there were not many "rare" parts, primarily a large collection of Model A parts that are easy to find.
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Thanks for the information. They have an incredible collection!
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