Best parts score you've made?

v8440

v8440

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Mine was probably the 8 3/4 I got out of a '71 or '72 duster. It was missing the driver's side axle shaft, and only had a 3.23 one legger in it. Plus, I had to pull it. The cost................$40.


Close second-a '68 2 door valiant post car, dead /6 in it, a running-when-pulled '77 360 2 bbl engine, a b body 8 3/4 with a 3.91 dead-suregrip, and a 904 sb tranny......$300. I can only count that one partially, since I had previously sold or traded that stuff to the guy I got it from. It went to him in batches, and came back to me for what I sold him the car for.

Oh, a set of c body axles cut down to fit the aforementioned a body 8 3/4...$35. That one was pretty good too.





What say you guys-tell us about it!
 
It's a toss up between:

A full shifter setup from a 69 Charger - including the woodgrain knob and black button plus a pair of power window switches for $25 total. Canadian $'s

or

A grille and half a grille for a 69 Charger... free.
 
A rust free 72 Dart with a 69 383HP in it for $150. Car had no title, so a friend is making it into a tube chassis car, and I kept the engine and trans. Not Mopar, but I got a 64 Galaxie 2 door htp 390 car for hauling it away. Again, no rust.
 
'73 Satellite Sebring Plus parts car. Black on black. Found it at a police impound lot. Paid $600 for the car and I believe it had every available option except for a sunroof. It had more options than any Road Runner of that year I've ever seen. We were told it was extremely rare too, one of 112 made? Yikes. Too bad the body was SHOT.

400HP engine (sold for $350), big block trans (of course), 4-speed with pistol grip shifter, complete interior (mint) with bucket seats, seatbelts that alone sold for almost $200, 8 3/4 Sure-grip (now in my Duster), center console in perfect condition (sold to a resto shop for big $$$), power windows, tuff steering wheel, road wheels (just sold on Ebay for $250) and on and on.....we made several thousand off it. :dance: It alone financed a large portion of my Duster resto.
 
Might be the complete '72 Road Runner grille I got for $40... or maybe the complete '72 Road Runner 400/3-speed (with a good grille, too) for $100.

Then again... maybe I'll be posting this weekend about a complete 340 Duster. :dance:
 
Good Lord dustergal, you guys really hit the jackpot on that one! I just thought I had found good deals.
 
Yeah, it was a score and a half. I went back and edited the post twice just cause I kept forgetting stuff that we got off it. :D Every time we drive by that impound lot I keep hoping to see another one, but so far no luck. ;)

Pics on this page, about halfway down:

http://www.breakstuffracing.com/42201.html
 
I wonder what has to happen to buy something off the police impound lot? Of course, that probably varies depending on where you are. Here, the impound lot is not owned by the police-they use wrecker companies.
 
The owners of the cars hauled to our local impound lot have so many days to pay fees, etc...once enough time has passed anyone can go there and put in a bid. If you win they just issue you a bill of sale. We easily won the Satellite, no one else realized what it was. :dance:
 
I drove a $75 '73 charger rust bucket for a few months. Siezed the 318 on a top speed run (pinhole leak in rad.) sold,727 $75, hood and front bumper $50, heads (why i dunno that's what they wanted) $40 for my roadrunner I used the chrome sport mirrors, the light package group, and drivers door glass.

Later I picked up a $100 74 charger, drove it 90 miles home with right spring coming up through the floorboard(broken at the eye). From that I got buckets and rear seats for RR, console and slapstick for rr. wiring and a buch of other stuff was donated to little brothers $200 73 ralleye 340 charger no motor, no trans, no punkin, hack job for a B motor (GONE!) :(
The shell (of the 74) was supposed to be a pettyesque street bomber at 3 tracks in a 50 mile circle butttttttttttt way too much going on to make it work.

Well there's no bites on it so I can fess up, have a small bolt a body 8.75 that was loaded on my pickup for 20 bucks. I'll just have to build a car around it someday.
 
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My 68 R/T convert for $356 :toot:

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3 cudas and a PILE o parts for 500$

dart gt hood(rust free and complete) for a almost empty pack of smokes...tho i think this deal would be fishy's...course i sold the hood a year or so later for 500$

68 fastback 50$...made 300 in parts off it to a friend after i deemed it "too far gone"

69 a-108 318 45$..might ad she is pretty solid too

half a fishy...full velvet/vynle gut ..perfect fenders, doors hood trunk lid glass headliner and carpet 300$

70 3/4 ton pu free...aka minicamper special

1958 lloyd ..trade for a ford tranny
 
A guy on moparts selling me a complete under hood air grabber (box's,Cables and new YO seal)setup for $325.00 + shipping.:giggedy:
 
Yup, 68R/T wins! :D


When one of the local junkyards was shutting down they had a rack full of complete rearends for $25 each. I grabbed 4 8 3/4 units one of which was a low mile sure-grip and that carrier now resides in the RR. The other 3 I sold at a swap meet for $150 each. :toot:
 
Nothing compared to what others have snagged on here but I've bought and sold a few Super Six /6 setups for some profit. The pistol grip I bought for my car wasn't a bad deal considering the rechroming process from Hurst is only $30 and the grips are fairly decent on it. I'd have a like-new shifter for quite a lot less than when NOS and decent used ones go for.
 
'70 rubber bumper 440/auto 'cuda for 50$. Traded it for a fresh 4:88 8-n-3 chunk. Both my best 'score' and biggest mistake. Sigh.
 
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