You could really keep yourself busy on e-bay. But then you might face the
prospect of retiring soon! :)
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From Charles Christ <cfchrist at earthlink.net>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: January 22, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: new direction? possible lbc content!
>along with my friend jon, yesterday we closed a deal on the purchase of a
>local foreign car parts store's entire inventory of old stock for just
>about evrything under the sun! there are stacks of clutch discs and
>pressure plates (probably 100-150 of each in boxes) . bosch, sachs,
>armstrong, lockheed, girling, dunlop, late fifties and early 60's
>replacement front and rear lamps and lenses for pegots and italian and
>german cars i canot identify as of yet. 100-150 mid 1970's taiwan
>replacement fenders stillwraped in cardboard for imports
>(unfortunatly)mostly asian from what initial inspections seem to indicate.
>it is mind boggling! his is a ton of stuff they just chose to dispose of.
>a mg td or tf gas tank, 75-100 sets of relined brake shoes. thisstore is
>interested in expansion and getting rid of this dead inventory that was
>crowding their space for modern foreign inventory. there are 20-30
>levershocks (armstrong) some in armstrong boxes along with some links too.
>there are huge levershocks that bolt down with 4 bolts in a square bolt
>patern i have never seen them that big! possibly jag salon? big healey? i
>dont know. this is no little undertaking!
>we are going to take most of it to import carlisle. with hopes of
disposing
>groups of stuff to other vendors. yeah valves, engine bearings for hilman
>humber? just amazing. there is stuff with no identification attached any
>longer that you look at and go *martins?* what the h**l is that?
>
>so save the requests , we have no idea as to what we just bought besidesa
>couple hunderd armstrong, kyb and toyo tube shocks and strut cartridges.
>just thought i'd share the excitement that i got 1 new rear shock for my
>bugeye and 3 smiths brand new fasten your seat belts dash gauges. what look
>like the size of a spridget gas gauge. great for the race car as a joke!
>
>possibly now i can afford to fix my own cars? probably not! now we need to
>catalog all ofthis that we can and try to sell off what we can to get our
>cash outlay back. after that, who knows possibly another inventory
somwhere
>else? stupid but i dont think we'll do it again.
>
>chuck
>up to my.....well you know what at home with my cute wonderfull
>understanding sweet even tempered (she's fumed with me again) wife. i
guess
>the couch and i are going to get real familiar. (she is really quite upset
>and has no idea how much stuf we bought) enough iorn to scrap all of it
and
>make money! he-he-he! she was looking ! my battle ship was just sunk!
>rats!-rats! foiled again!
>
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