what do you collect of parts ...and how many?

[peters180a/170b]

I just can't pass up a good price on 30/31 stainless steel headlight buckets??? I have 2 cars but 3 sets of headlights extra???I ask myself why? I have 6 extra carbs. 5 engines why... When does it stop ...when one runs out of room or money?? It's not like these parts are hard to find...l.o.l

[Barry B./ Ma.]

I was always a nut for wheels, I still have a few 21" in all kinds of condition, also had some 16s but sold them then got around 20 17" of which I had 5 powdercoated and tried on the roadster. Had 8 Model A's but now down to 3. What's wrong with us!

[ronn]

Wheels carbs and headlights.... though the extra headlights are finally gone.

Can't have too many wheels and carbs, to fix up that 50 year old "barn find".

[TinCup]

Yeah I am there with 5 carbs 3 water pumps and assorted others. Never know when the next project comes along.

[Maclab58]

Some drink, some do drugs, some collect cats. My wife has a shoe addiction. I just can't resist model A parts. I have 2 model A's and a 40' shipping container full of parts. I never pass up a good deal on parts whether I need them or not!!!! Call it a weakness.

[road_king]

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I'm guilty, I collect complete cars (11 Model A's) now, for parts.. fenders, doors, wheels, carbs, hoods, you name it I got it... I love it

[msmaron]

cast iron fuel bowls..why i have no fricken idea...but i have 12 of them....nuts right!

[peters180a/170b]

1 thing i am sorry about [kinda] i had 3 extra sets of running board molding for the 1930. [The super repro sets] .Sold them to 2 -180A and 1 Roadster owner.. Now Bob does not see for another year to start making them again... Maybe..... I am just worried about the outside piece. Mark , i have 5 extra cast iron bowls now that all of 1930 is glass....

[c125bob]

I'm guilty, haven't been at it long but can't resist, if I see it I buy it.

[Elcastor]

No wonder I have a hard time finding parts!!!

Maybe it would be a little easier if I were not in Mexico, but it sounds like you guys already have all the good ones!

[msmaron]

Originally Posted by peters180a/170b

Mark , i have 5 extra cast iron bowls now that all of 1930 is glass....

Ok ill take them.hahaha lol..never knew why i kept buying them Honest pete im nuts...NOW if i could find original fan belts we would both collect them hahahaah

[ursus]

For me it can start with looking long and hard for something and then, when I finally find it, the same part suddenly begins appearing all over the place and the hoarding bug takes over. Good sense eventually returns but by then I end up with multiples of the item. For a while it was Model-B carbs (have 22), then NOS transmission gears (whew!), then NOS and NORS engine components (guess I need to get more blocks!). Where does it end?

[RHD]

I think the collecting Model 'A' parts is some kind of incurable disease. I have been stricken with it your many years now. At Swap Meets the disease really takes hold and it gives me the ability to smell Model 'A' parts from quite a distance. My wife hasn't got it and she thinks I will never be cured. A lot of my friends have it also. One had it so bad, his wife left him, as there was no room left on the kitchen table.

[Greg Jones]

Ursus, let me help your afflication by taking some of those NOS parts off your hand. Not to worry, I will pay for shipping. By the way, my affliction is speedometers and headlights. 30-31 stuff

[CarlG]

Tools.

Oh, and wheels.

[Mike Peters]

Parts are harder to come by than cars, particularly the scarce stuff. A couple years ago I bought an original 28 radiator and fan shroud on an auction because I knew they are scarce. I didn't even have a car at the time to put it on. Then this summer I bought a a 28 business coup that was unrestored and only mildly molested, so guess what? It needed a fan shroud, and I already had one. So don't beat yourselves up for buying stuff you don't need at the time, because there will surely come a day when you will.

[MikeK]

I collect headlight glass. 100+ pieces and counting. I could show you things the J.S. don't address, like the fine nearly invisible changes in Twolite rows three & four of the lens elements. As time progressed tiny changes affecting projected pattern occurred.

Here are FOUR different row-three center element changes:
Vertical convex, Vertical flat, Back-tilted flat, Horizontal concave with front tilt.
. . .and two beam spread variations of row four central groups.

This is just one slide from my 45 minute powerpoint presentation and hands-on-glass display


There are many other little known variations.
I also know way too much about the history of the McKee glass company!

Yeah, I collect other stuff, too.
About 2000 sq.ft. full to the ceiling in three buildings.

[David Martin]

All of you guys obviously need to mark your calendars for the Illinois Region MARC Swap Meet at the Kane County Fair Grounds in St. Charles, Illinois on February 17, 2013.

Contact Mark Maron for details.

[glenn in camino]

I like small parts that fit in my bin boxes. Especially 1928 stuff. I try to stay away from big things that are hard to store.

[Rowdy]

Era Mallory Distributors, horns, engines and Powerhouse generators. I need to sell a couple of hors and buy a downdraft intake to go with the 97LZ carburetor, but that will be awhile before I do. Rod