Hoarding

[woods]

I think that someone on here was just looking for a good bed.

[averagef250]

I have tons of stuff. well not tons, but 3 3x2x3 rubbermaid tubs full of cluster parts, wire harnesses fron 3 trucks, interior peices, trim pieces and misc nuts and bolts. Then i have a half a truck in the drive way
and a bunch of good patch panels sitting in the carport, as well as 2 302's, a 390, a 351W, an AOD, a T-18 and 2 9'' rear ends.

I sold some stuff, like a full auto conversion for $250. I mean full. trans, flexplate, bellhousing spacer plate thing, cooler lines, cooler, colum, etc. I cant get rid of a set of brand new (run for 1 month) 390 heads with hardened seats for $100. It seems you really cant get anything for what you have these days.

Right now i have decided that the straight, rust free 1969 ranger bed with shaved badges is gonna get cut up and taken in for scrap , as well as 1 9'', the 390, and 1 of the 302's. as well as a dead 1984 f150 with a 300 i-6, c5 and 4x4. I couldnt get $400 bucks for that when it WAS running.

Anyone want to save a rust free straight bed with no side markers or trim and a rust free toolbox? it has the factory aux tank filler but no tank.

If the bed was 70-72 and didn't have the toolbox I'd be pretty interested. How have you advertized it? I'm in your area and have never seen the bed you describe for sale and watch craigslist religiously for such things.

I try to limit what I store and put a solid 2 year limit on almost everything. If I haven't needed it in two years it's gone. Sold, given away or scrapped.

I used to save a lot of stuff because I thought I might need it or it was rare. I got to manage the selling off a past on family friend's home shop because his family had little idea what he had or what it was worth. The saddest part was he blew a lot of money on total junk. He'd always brag about the fantastic deals he got and high quality stuff he had, but the reality turned out to be most everything he bought was junk, new stuff was almost exclusively chinese crap with no value and older stuff was lower end USA stuff. I bet he spent a half a mil or so in the last decade he was alive on crap to pack a large pole building with and it was a heck of a chore to get about $20K for all of it. The cleanup expense for dump boxes and hazardous materials fees took most of the money. The only thing I got paid was the cost of a $300 digital camera and a few low value things I figured I could use.

A friend is getting up there in years and has an overwhelming number of unfinished projects, extensive parts for them and tons of really nice stuff put away "just in case". He figures, theoretically, he could shut his business down and hire a dozen skilled workers to work on just his personal projects and work them full time for atleast a decade. It's not a good place to be and he knows it. He wants to clear stuff out, but can't do it. Anytime parts get unpacked he works on whatever project those parts go to for a little while, then onto something else.

[woods]

This sounds like me. I have too many things going at once. I need to focus on one or two.

[71fordkid]

I have tons of stuff. well not tons, but 3 3x2x3 rubbermaid tubs full of cluster parts, wire harnesses fron 3 trucks, interior peices, trim pieces and misc nuts and bolts. Then i have a half a truck in the drive way
and a bunch of good patch panels sitting in the carport, as well as 2 302's, a 390, a 351W, an AOD, a T-18 and 2 9'' rear ends.

I sold some stuff, like a full auto conversion for $250. I mean full. trans, flexplate, bellhousing spacer plate thing, cooler lines, cooler, colum, etc. I cant get rid of a set of brand new (run for 1 month) 390 heads with hardened seats for $100. It seems you really cant get anything for what you have these days.

Right now i have decided that the straight, rust free 1969 ranger bed with shaved badges is gonna get cut up and taken in for scrap , as well as 1 9'', the 390, and 1 of the 302's. as well as a dead 1984 f150 with a 300 i-6, c5 and 4x4. I couldnt get $400 bucks for that when it WAS running.

Anyone want to save a rust free straight bed with no side markers or trim and a rust free toolbox? it has the factory aux tank filler but no tank.

If the bed was 70-72 and didn't have the toolbox I'd be pretty interested. How have you advertized it? I'm in your area and have never seen the bed you describe for sale and watch craigslist religiously for such things.

I try to limit what I store and put a solid 2 year limit on almost everything. If I haven't needed it in two years it's gone. Sold, given away or scrapped.

I used to save a lot of stuff because I thought I might need it or it was rare. I got to manage the selling off a past on family friend's home shop because his family had little idea what he had or what it was worth. The saddest part was he blew a lot of money on total junk. He'd always brag about the fantastic deals he got and high quality stuff he had, but the reality turned out to be most everything he bought was junk, new stuff was almost exclusively chinese crap with no value and older stuff was lower end USA stuff. I bet he spent a half a mil or so in the last decade he was alive on crap to pack a large pole building with and it was a heck of a chore to get about $20K for all of it. The cleanup expense for dump boxes and hazardous materials fees took most of the money. The only thing I got paid was the cost of a $300 digital camera and a few low value things I figured I could use.

A friend is getting up there in years and has an overwhelming number of unfinished projects, extensive parts for them and tons of really nice stuff put away "just in case". He figures, theoretically, he could shut his business down and hire a dozen skilled workers to work on just his personal projects and work them full time for atleast a decade. It's not a good place to be and he knows it. He wants to clear stuff out, but can't do it. Anytime parts get unpacked he works on whatever project those parts go to for a little while, then onto something else.

Ive put the bed as well as the other parts on craigslist and had no luck. the only thing i sold was a set of west coast juniors, a fender, tailgate, door and the auto trans swap.