Yardin' score!!!

[Stretch]

Jass, Wayne and myself went to our favorite yard today. It was good. Good indeed.

I can't believe what I found today. But I'm sitting here looking at it so I guess I have to.

The first thing I found just completely blows my mind.
I was laughing at the bad home grown wood dash (yes wood) completely 100% hand built with the factory gauges installed in it. The truck was a late '70s dodge with a bad purple paint job.

I looked in the back and noticed a pair of torsion bars under a pair of leaf springs. I climbed in, moved the springs, picked up a torsion bar to look at the part #. I then googled it. Mid 60s b-body no good to me. Thats when I relized the springs I moved are new. Never installed mopar Super stock springs. Jass said " if you don't take those I will". I responded with " Oh, I'm buying them!"

I then walked back to the '66 barracuda I have harvested more then a few parts from. I noticed the drive shaft on the ground next to it. I need one for Stinky. Stinky is a '65 so it has a ball and trunion shaft. '66 is a slip yoke. "I'll take that". Two scores and not one tool used!

Then, at the end of the day Jass found a '73 4 door Dart. With, you guessed it. One good door. The right rear. 6 bolts later I was carrying it to my truck.

Grand total you ask? Paul said $80.00. I gave him $100.00

Jass and Wayne did well too.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Stretch and Wang did better than I, but I'm certainly not complaining. I was as stunned as he that they were lying in the back of that pickup. I'd previously bought both the fender-mount turn signals and the engine (it was a '72 360 truck) from that very truck. I'd seen the hilarious dash in the past but never once looked in the bed.

Wang picked up a complete '67-'69 GM F-body aftermarket Comp Plus for a Muncie transmission, a '77-'78-only Trans Am W72 air cleaner base, a '64-'67 GM A-body Muncie shifter handle (it's literally stamped "MUNCIE" where you'd expect to see "HURST") as a wall-hanger, and a cruise switch for his gal's car. Purchasing that shifter/linkage new will dent your bank account by about $750; he spent $40 total. I thought the shifter was '70-'81 since there was something similar in my '78, but looking at photos after I got home it's definitely first-generation Camaro/Firebird, and the linkage rods appear to be for the Muncie. Don't hate on Wang for his GM tendencies--he's also got a '71 Challenger (factory Citron Yella, a.k.a. Curious Yellow) and a '72 Charger Rallye.

I dropped $100 on a set of the smaller pin-type caliper adapters (10.87" rotors/14" wheels), an '80 Slant Six intake/exhaust/carb setup (aluminum intake, no it's not a 2V), a bad homegrown chrome shifter handle--all of which should work nicely in the '68 Valiant--and a '70 Dart manual-steering column which has the shift tube/lever I'll eventually need for a ignition-interlock setup. The Dart column has a destroyed '70 Rim Blow wheel on it--the ugly 2-spoke job--and it's for column automatic, but the conversion parts to make it floor shift are only about $170. I also grabbed parts of the shift linkage in case they're pertinent. Considering that original manual-steering floor-shift columns are bringing $400-600 plus the shipping, that seems positively cheap. The manual steering box is still in the Dart; I may grab that next go-round. Paul wants me to come back and fetch my 360 Commando crate motor yet this year.

I took one hell of a spill whilst attempting to walk between two trucks that were at a right angle to each other. One had a protruding bumper bracket that I didn't see, the other one had a bent bumper that I tried to avoid. Catching the bracket drove me directly into the bent bumper. Stretch can testify how hard I hit the ground. I told Stretch and Wang later, "I could've made that fall take a lot longer. I started struggling to keep my balance, but realized I wasn't gonna save it. I just decided to go with it and deal with the pain." I'm dealing with it now. Both shins got pretty-well carved--my approach was from the back of the trucks so it was two sharp edges. Wasn't long afore I could feel the blood in my long johns. Today, everything hurts, but my right leg is both sore and has sharp pain where skin once was. My right arm is a strong second place, since that was the first part of "upper me" to hit the ground and the rest of me landed on it. I'm loathe to attempt anything today, but shit needs doin' after playing hooky yesterday.

 

[thrashingcows]

Awesome scores for everyone!

Shin whacks hurt like hell and take forever to heal and then they tend to heal poorly.

 

[Stretch]

Jass hit the ground hard! I was right behind him when it happened so I had a great view of it. My first thought was OH SHIT! Knowing his back has been broken more than once. I knew he was going to be ok when he was more upset about spilling his coffee.

Not having a good back myself, I knew that hurt.

 

[Jester]

Good finds. How's the shin healing up, Jass?

 

[Dr.Jass]

Good finds. How's the shin healing up, Jass?

One better than the other. I drew blood on both. Go (down) big or go home!

There's still a scab on the right, but the left has healed.

 

[Jester]

Go (down) big or go home!

That's what he said. Wait, what?

 

[71ChargerRT]

Nice scores Gents!