2023 Garage Sale Thread

[Patrickm82]

Congrats guys looking forward to next years finds.

 

[Raineman]

Congrats to Beemer, very well deserved.

Congrats, uh… I think, to RTM. Looking forward to the 2024 GS thread.

An enthusiastic HUZZAH! to Smoke. Excellent job this year. Enjoy the passing of the torch and may I say, “smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em”

 

[Outlawmws]

Probably my last one for the year, First a couple items from Christmas day:

The Motorcycle art is signed and dated '71, and I got a Wizard/Indestro 3/8 ratchet, (same 52 tooth count as my 1/4" Indestro and the swivel head 3/8) and a 1/4" Indestro breaker. The GE sign will go good with my HIGH VOLTAGE stencil sign.




And today's finds - After Cody, After Don I went to the closing Ace for leavings (Thanks Don for the Location!) Longish drive but nothing else locally at all:

I could not believe Don missed Plumb and Proto LA pebble 1-1/16 X 7/8 DOA's! I did leave some Indestro DOE's and a couple DBEs I like the ratchets, but didn't want the wrenches as bad as the Plvmb empire DOE's. - A Flap wheel, a coupel boxes of solid brass hook and eye's, and some replacement tips for my walking stick as I do go through them.



Free were some common nails in a couple of sizes, adn the Ace bags for bagging stuff. Also left behind were the free Allen wrenches. I already have more than I'll ever use.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Congrats all around, including Smoke...

I created it with a minimalist approach in mind...[ ] ...hammered tone that is used in vintage craftsman 1950's tool boxes...[ ]....the ubiquitous craftsman phillips #1, a set of pliers and a socket.

A worthy entry in a fine tradition representing the hobby and the honor with a personal touch and pride!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Congratulations to Bmwrd0 for your PotY win and soon-to-happen reception of the coveted Pickie trophy!

Also congrats to RTM for being elected as next year's Garage Sale thread Launcher, Chief Enabler and overall Master At Arms.

And, of course, none of us can miss the chance to tip our hats to this year's GJGS thread Ringleader, @Smokeshow69, for his masterful launch and year-long supervision of our happy gaggle of secondhand seekers. Well done, my friend!

** Thankyou! This thread is really my favorite thread on the gj and I have been honored to be this years host! I have joined a small , elite crew of former hosts and feel honored to be in their midst. I havent been able to be as active of a host as I would have liked due to changing jobs this year and my son having medical issues but I certainly enjoy the camaraderie and respite from everyday life that garage journal offers**

When you've exhausted the large lot hubcap market in your home town, you look along your holiday travel route home from your Mom's place in Virginia. My previous 75-count hubcap collection has grown by an additional 158 after three stops in Maryland.



There are some cool ones in there, including two early 50s Kaisers and an Edsel! However, more than half are 80s-era caps that no one is looking for, which are perfect for my purpose.

Speaking of stops, I think I need to. Stop, that is, as in buying hubcaps, before SWMBO lowers the boom. The magpie in me is smiling quite a bit, though. So much shiny...

Holy smokes, you are killing it! You find any cool desoto or plymouth caps in there?

Congrats all around, including Smoke...

A worthy entry in a fine tradition representing the hobby and the honor with a personal touch and pride!

Thankyou sir! The trophies were fun to make and will be fun to hand out!

 

[Smokeshow69]

**Speaking of trophies- you may have noticed that I said trophies but so far have only shown one trophy. Yup that's right, there is one more that hasn't been unveiled yet. It is for the member who gets the most "*****" of the year. Today is the last day of ***** to be counted and tomorrow I will announce the winner. Believe it or not there is actually a pretty close race between 4 or 5 of our members. Yes alot of them were included in the POTY ballot but not all of them. Stay tuned for that trophy unveiling . **

 

[saukit]

Thanks to Smoke for all your hard work this year! Greatly appreciated!

I haven't been picking much and doing even less on sorting and organizing the increasingly unruly stash of rust in the basement. That being said I've had a few things laying around from random sales that I've been meaning to post.

First couple pics are from a random basement...If I recall correctly this lot was $10. Random ball pein, Williams, Herbrand, Craftsman adjustables. 3 of the sockets are IH so they'll probably end up on the auction site. Channellocks, Indestro and Fleet spark plug sockets, General Plumb bob, Indestro breaker, Fleet, Wizard, and Wright extensions.



Second part of the basement box. This stuff is all pretty obvious so I won't name it all. The ratcheting metric wrench is unbranded but has a patent number on it so I'll need to try and figure that out.


Got this Mitutoyo dial caliper at a garage sale for $10. They sell pretty well but I have no idea if this thing is missing parts, I don't know how to operate it either


This pic and the next came out of a private ES, it was pretty well picked over but I was happy to get this stuff for $8 I think. If anyone has the 10mm Napa combo and wants to trade let me know!


Same sale as pic above, most of the 1/4 sockets are Napa, plus some Proto impacts, a 3/8 thumbwheel, and big Craftsman 3/4 drive socket for my buddy that needs it for his pier bolts at the vacation place.


This pic I can't remember where I got it or how much it was. Always happy to get the Plomb stuff and I don't have many of the 5 ring sockets so I'm pretty happy about that. The specialty wrench is P&C, then there's a Duro reefer rat, a few Craftsman odds and ends, and New Britain plus SK rats.


Pulled this stuff out of an estate sale at a very picked over shop. Was pleasantly surprised to find the Plomb speeder, deep socket, and DOE, probably most excited about the Snap on T handle. Anyone know what the two weird ratcheting tools are for? One is a Goodell Pratt and the other is a Keystone. $5 for this lot, I don't think the ES company knew tools which always makes me happy!

 

[genog]

I love those polished Napa combos
Made in the USA....
Cool. Very cool
Hope you find the 10mm

 

[jeffmoss26]

Great end to the year!!

 

[jeffmoss26]

GJ member Chrome Vanadium Cody kindly sent me a PM about an old Oakland hardware store in his neighborhood that is closing down and their last day will be tomorrow. He mentioned that they had old tools including Plomb and Indestro and he was absolutely correct. Here is what we found today, almost all of it new old stock.
Thorsen tools.
Plomb tools.
D-I and Indestro sockets.
Xcelite nutdrivers, mostly metric
S-K tools.
No pick would be complete without a couple of Barcalo wrenches. Craftsman U.S.A. socket.
New Britain socket.
Last was some possible replacement corners for GMTK toolboxes.
All in all, I couldn’t be happier with the haul, thanks to CV Cody!
-Don

What was the name of the store?

 

[Raineman]

I’ve got a few last minute add ons.

Four.cycle saw fit to add to a couple of my sets. (Thank you kind sir) Herbrand 3/8” drive ratchet (in need of a selector ball), and a 6” extension. Snap on “M” series wartime socket. I tried to fix the ratchet but had the wrong size ball bearing, so still looking for one.


I got some things off the auction site over Christmas time. A few Blue Point DBE. I’m building a set of the standard and shorts. A couple are wartime.






A Bonney 3/8” drive 6” WOBBLE extension. First one I’ve ever seen and I didn’t hesitate. Thrilled to add this one.






I’ve got some goodies on the way from a trade deal here to kick off 2024.

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks for the greatest thread on GJ.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I love those polished Napa combos
Made in the USA....
Cool. Very cool
Hope you find the 10mm

Those combos look sk made to me. They look very similar to craftsman professional/ sk combos so I have a feeling that who made them?

 

[Outlawmws]

Indestro breaker

If not a keeper, please let me know.

Anyone know what the two weird ratcheting tools are for? One is a Goodell Pratt and the other is a Keystone.

Better pics of the business ends?

 

[SuburbGuy]

Belated update on an item from an estate sale a few weeks ago. I threw the puller into my pile because it looked different than any puller I already had. The legs aren't hinged, to adjust them you slide them up and down through a slot on the crossbar and tighten them into place with square headed bolts. At the time I bought it I thought it was heavy for its size, according to the scale it weighs 4 lbs. 15 ozs. After recently soaking it in degreaser I found 2 markings, U191 and a diamond with an illegible mark inside of it. It also has some remnants of gray paint. I'm guessing it's somewhat old, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.

 

[BlueBomber]

Holy smokes, you are killing it! You find any cool desoto or plymouth caps in there?

No, unfortunately. But check out this cool Dodge Lancer cap with 3-D knight bust



and this Mad Max-ish Oldsmobile from the 50s!

 

[bmwrd0]

Picker of 2023 Results- Congratulations to our winner Bmwrd0! His finds this year have been an example to all of us this year! Wether he was pulling a haul from habitat or from a local estate sale on the last day, he was out there consistently hunting and gathering even in the meager times. I have personally been picking with him and he is a force to be reckoned with. He leaves no box unopened and will go to even the darkest corners of a garage to find something. This habit rewards with with lots of cool and desirable smalls that leads to him being the envy of all his picking peers!

I have crafted a trophy just for this award this year and I will be hand delivering it to him. I created it with a minimalist approach in mind. The paint color is a hammered tone that is used in vintage craftsman 1950's tool boxes. The hammertone looks ok in these pictures but actually is better in person! I included the ubiquitous craftsman phillips #1, a set of pliers and a socket.

/taps mic
this thing on? testing, testing...

Well, here we are, again at the end of the year, and again with trophy's and those who...

No, that isn't right, we are all winners, all of us who participate in this glorious hobby, the hobby that my wife calls "crapping, 'cause you fill the house with sh.."

In any case, I would like to thank the little people; this is for all of you estate sale workers too lazy too price everything, all the people staring at their phones while I snake my hands past them, too all the greedy guts who move to fast to look behind doors, too all the garage sale holders who think Craftsman is made of gold while they cannot for the life of them stop to wonder who Snap-on was made by, and, finally, to all the little people who are too short too reach up and grab the items from the top shelf.

This award goes out to all of you, without whom I wouldn't look like a cheapskate in my ex-wife's eyes.

(Seriously, thanks goes out to all of you, and especially Smokeshow, for holding a wonderful thread.)

 

[Outlawmws]

 

[Smokeshow69]

No, unfortunately. But check out this cool Dodge Lancer cap with 3-D knight bust



and this Mad Max-ish Oldsmobile from the 50s!

That hub cap is cool. The Lancer wasn’t the top shelf Imperial but it was a pretty luxurious model for sure and a cap like that would have made the car shine ! So cool.

/taps mic
this thing on? testing, testing...

Well, here we are, again at the end of the year, and again with trophy's and those who...

No, that isn't right, we are all winners, all of us who participate in this glorious hobby, the hobby that my wife calls "crapping, 'cause you fill the house with sh.."

In any case, I would like to thank the little people; this is for all of you estate sale workers too lazy too price everything, all the people staring at their phones while I snake my hands past them, too all the greedy guts who move to fast to look behind doors, too all the garage sale holders who think Craftsman is made of gold while they cannot for the life of them stop to wonder who Snap-on was made by, and, finally, to all the little people who are too short too reach up and grab the items from the top shelf.

This award goes out to all of you, without whom I wouldn't look like a cheapskate in my ex-wife's eyes.

(Seriously, thanks goes out to all of you, and especially Smokeshow, for holding a wonderful thread.)

Here here and well said! “ hey what’s this proto or plomb brand? I don’t know. It looks old and isn’t shiny. Probably just some old junk. Let’s put it in the discount bin away from the shiny new tools. New tools sell way better ”.

 

[bmwrd0]

Well, there was precious little out there today, and what little I did find I had to drive halfway across the state for! But, it was a nice moving sale held by a wonderful woman, so, worth it. The other sale I had lined up was too much in the homeowner vein, and I am pretty sure that they "purge" beforehand, thus losing all the interesting stuff. Anyway, $25 netted me all of the following:

Stanley 71, Stanley Sweetheart mortis gauge, Norton abrasive stick, vintage fishing pole holder, a ceramic light socket, and the entire contents of this box:

As you can see, a Plomb ratchet, hex keys, there is an SK Diamond 1/2" ratchet in there, some Craftsman bits and bobs, and so on. I will have to get rid of some ****, but...

 

[Pexto]

That's pretty good for "precious little"! In fact I think it merits a hearty "You ****".

Interesting that the Stanley 71 is missing the blade, but has an extra blade clamp. If only it could speak and tell its tale .

 

[mikeinri]

Another junk store today. $7.50 for all. Paid $2.00 for the drill bits. Told the wife, one drill bit could be worth $10.00 bucks. The lumber company opened in 1913 and went out of business 30 years ago. Snap-on screwdriver for 50 cents. Getting a collection of them.

VERY cool. Are those drill bits NOS? Either way, You ****!

Here is a 20$ end of year find. Bondhus Allen wrench set goes to 3/4. Missing a few but it was free. The Starrett wants 453$ fir the digital calipers new . The level sells for around 200$ on ebay.

Wow. You **** doesn't seem strong enough!


Mike

 

[mikeinri]

While Bluebomber has passed out from waiting with baited breath on the poll results, I have some news for all of us! Many thanks to everyone who took a moment to vote on these 2 polls I created. It helps keep people motivated to go picking and makes for fun banter and competition throughout the year!

Garage sale thread host- **Elected host for 2024 is RTM! Congratulations and good luck! (you are going to need luck if someone finds a few jerry cans to keep the thread on track ) Your peers have spoken and you have been elected as Garage Sale Thread host for 2024! You will be joining a long standing group of adventurers, explorers, poets and general comedians as you create and manage this thread for the coming year. You have your hands full with this crew but we believe you have the skills necessary to keep the thread on track and going! Best of luck to you and we look forward to seeing your work this year. While there are some similar trends each host has tried to integrate into the thread each year, there also is a bit of artistic license that thread host has to personalize the thread and make it their own.

Whew, dodged that bullet!!!

Joking aside, and while I'm truly humbled that anyone would even vote for me, CONGRATS TO @RTM for the win!!! Looking forward to another great year of goofing around, living vicariously through everyone's hunts and finds!

Of course, HUGE thanks to @Smokeshow69 for getting us through 2023 successfully!!!

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

Picker of 2023 Results- Congratulations to our winner Bmwrd0! His finds this year have been an example to all of us this year! Wether he was pulling a haul from habitat or from a local estate sale on the last day, he was out there consistently hunting and gathering even in the meager times. I have personally been picking with him and he is a force to be reckoned with. He leaves no box unopened and will go to even the darkest corners of a garage to find something. This habit rewards with with lots of cool and desirable smalls that leads to him being the envy of all his picking peers!

I have crafted a trophy just for this award this year and I will be hand delivering it to him. I created it with a minimalist approach in mind. The paint color is a hammered tone that is used in vintage craftsman 1950's tool boxes. The hammertone looks ok in these pictures but actually is better in person! I included the ubiquitous craftsman phillips #1, a set of pliers and a socket.

Congrats, @bmwrd0! You definitely come up with some great finds! Looking forward to what you find next year!

@Smokeshow69: Awesome trophy, yet another example of your excellent leadership in 2023!

Mike

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

And on the last day of the year, my monthly sale was on, and I got nothing much...
A book on Gráinne Mhaol, translates as Bald Gráinne, or in English Grace O'Malley, a famous pirate Queen who lived near my home, she is a fascinating character.

 

[d42jeep]

Probably my last one for the year, First a couple items from Christmas day:

The Motorcycle art is signed and dated '71, and I got a Wizard/Indestro 3/8 ratchet, (same 52 tooth count as my 1/4" Indestro and the swivel head 3/8) and a 1/4" Indestro breaker. The GE sign will go good with my HIGH VOLTAGE stencil sign.




And today's finds - After Cody, After Don I went to the closing Ace for leavings (Thanks Don for the Location!) Longish drive but nothing else locally at all:

I could not believe Don missed Plumb and Proto LA pebble 1-1/16 X 7/8 DOA's! I did leave some Indestro DOE's and a couple DBEs I like the ratchets, but didn't want the wrenches as bad as the Plvmb empire DOE's. - A Flap wheel, a coupel boxes of solid brass hook and eye's, and some replacement tips for my walking stick as I do go through them.



Free were some common nails in a couple of sizes, adn the Ace bags for bagging stuff. Also left behind were the free Allen wrenches. I already have more than I'll ever use.

I knew I left the Proto LA behind but I can’t believe that I missed the Plomb DOE.

What was the name of the store?

Ellis Ace Hardware. A sad ending to a cool old store.
-Don

 

[Farleyfan]

saukit​

nice pick on the Craftsman 1/4 stubby spinner ! those are hard to find these days.

 

[seber]

Well, there was precious little out there today, and what little I did find I had to drive halfway across the state for! But, it was a nice moving sale held by a wonderful woman, so, worth it. The other sale I had lined up was too much in the homeowner vein, and I am pretty sure that they "purge" beforehand, thus losing all the interesting stuff. Anyway, $25 netted me all of the following:

Stanley 71, Stanley Sweetheart mortis gauge, Norton abrasive stick, vintage fishing pole holder, a ceramic light socket, and the entire contents of this box:

As you can see, a Plomb ratchet, hex keys, there is an SK Diamond 1/2" ratchet in there, some Craftsman bits and bobs, and so on. I will have to get rid of some ****, but...

Not a fishing pole holder. It is an umbrella clamp for photography lighting.

 

[Old Radar]

As the year comes to a close I'd like to thank Smoke for his terrific job as this year's Host, congratulate Beemer as the well-deserved winner of Picker Of The Year and wish RTM good luck as the 2024 Garage Sale Host!! RTM, we'll all be looking for your opening post in just a few hours, so type fast!

This year wasn't quite as good for me as the last couple, but I really can't complain as I still netted just over 1000 "new" tools and thanks to a couple dozen sales, all of them were free. I really enjoy collecting tools, researching their past (probably not as much as Lugz), organizing them into period-correct sets (definitely not as much as Don!) and searching all over my garage for them when I finally need them (and usually grabbing a suitable substitute out of the off-shore bucket when I can't find the one I'm looking for...).
But what really makes this hobby enjoyable is sharing my finds with a group of like-minded enthusiasts who can appreciate, comment, advise and commiserate on each other's acquisitions.

Here's wishing you all enjoyable and suckworthy "suckcess" in the coming year!

 

[bmwrd0]

Not a fishing pole holder. It is an umbrella clamp for photography lighting.

That makes perfect sense, as the woman holding the sale mentioned that her parents were illustrators of some kind.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I knew I left the Proto LA behind but I can’t believe that I missed the Plomb DOE.

Ellis Ace Hardware. A sad ending to a cool old store.
-Don

**Heresy... I can barely believe my eyes. Both Plomb and Proto LA left behind...oh the humanity**

As the year comes to a close I'd like to thank Smoke for his terrific job as this year's Host, congratulate Beemer as the well-deserved winner of Picker Of The Year and wish RTM good luck as the 2024 Garage Sale Host!! RTM, we'll all be looking for your opening post in just a few hours, so type fast!

This year wasn't quite as good for me as the last couple, but I really can't complain as I still netted just over 1000 "new" tools and thanks to a couple dozen sales, all of them were free. I really enjoy collecting tools, researching their past (probably not as much as Lugz), organizing them into period-correct sets (definitely not as much as Don!) and searching all over my garage for them when I finally need them (and usually grabbing a suitable substitute out of the off-shore bucket when I can't find the one I'm looking for...).
But what really makes this hobby enjoyable is sharing my finds with a group of like-minded enthusiasts who can appreciate, comment, advise and commiserate on each other's acquisitions.

Here's wishing you all enjoyable and suckworthy "suckcess" in the coming year!

You are welcome good sir! It was a real honor to have been selected as host this year. I really enjoyed all the rights and duties that come with the office and wish RTM best of luck next year.

 

[brockmub]

Here's wishing you all enjoyable and suckworthy "suckcess" in the coming year!

Ha! Only here will the "suckcess" joke work, really got me with that one!

Congrats all, so happy to find this thread this year and can't wait for the next.

 

[Smokeshow69]

*** This just in....We have a winner for "suckiest" member of the year for 2023. In a finish that would make a great Hollywood movie, we have a final winner. 2 members where very nearly neck and neck yesterday, 3Bay and Bmwrd0 with total amount of ***** bestowed on them by other members for their picking efforts very closely matched. With Bmw's cross state venture yesterday with his assemblage of picks and the tool box filed with dross and some good items, he gained a few extra ***** yesterday. As in he literally beat 3Bay by 3 ***** total. 3Bay finished the year with 42 ***** and Bmw with 45 ***** total. Folks this goes to show that it is super important to participate in these threads, both by voting and also by posting finds and acquisitions! Not to get all movie quotie on you but to quote Dominic Toretto from Fast and the Furious- "winnings winning, doesn't matter if it's by and inch or a mile". Bmw pulled ahead at the last moment by digging deep and finding some untapped energy that propelled him forward. I'm not sure if this has happened before but I can't imagine it's very common that a member wins 2 awards in the same year. I'll be giving this to him in person as well when I see him soon!

So you might be wondering what this other trophy is? Well it combines both my sense of humor as well as my garage pursuits into another "minimalist" appearing trophy. It is a Ridgid shop vacuum nozzle painted in a rustoleum color very similar to craftsman power bronze that I used on my drill press base. I thought the vacuum nozzle was funny because vacuums do "****". Also another humerous function of that nozzle is that it has a light built into it. Bmw can use this when he is picking in those dark/dank garages and basements looking in those otherwise unexplored nooks and crannies we mentioned yesterday when he won POTY.

 

[LesserSon]

Congratulations!
to Smoke for a year-long job so well done,
to BMW for a well-deserved POTY second win,
to BMW for striking gold ‘mid a “you ****” din,
to RTM for a great 2024 hosting year to come!

 

[Smokeshow69]

As I have sat here over these past few days tallying votes, reviewing finds and looking back on this year, I have to say we have had quite an interesting and fruitful year. The finds didn't cease to amaze and each weekend we vigorously poured over other members pictures with a jelous eye to see what sort of great deals they found . Perhaps slightly jealous and also partially curious we watched with an intentional eye to see what sort of gems could be sourced and perhaps prices paid if the member posted those. Let's be honest here we all have a bit of a fear of missing out and I think that is what keeps this thread moving at such a good pace throughout the year. For instance some of those finds I took note of were
NJMarty- uncommon craftsman spinner ratchet
Alinc100 and his ridiculously mint Bonney brown wrinkle finish roller stack that was stuck in a total time warp
OldRadar- nice wartime machinist chest

**Ctuai- Vintage Johnny Ball insulator that he bought in a box full of misc items and flipped on ebay for $3684!! Not enough ***** in the world to cover this one. This thread isn't just about the initial find, it's also about the post find...in this case putting some extra tool money back in his pocket**

lugz- his cool repurposed safe and a fighting knife
4gotn- found a really cool early Plomb square corner tool box. Regrettably he only posted on this thread once and hasnt returned.
wrenchguy- cool ww2 aircraft generator
Rickster- low priced snappy haul
Bobcat 753- john deer mower and free dump truck. Seriously a free dump truck
Bluebolt-Free shop cleanout! Plus he pulled some GI grade yost vises that had everyone drooling
boogerman=3" wilton
brockmub- another free garage cleanout and some vintage chrysler/mopar signs I was drooling over
Squez- ridiculous $75 machinist roller stack, everyone was hating this guy when he posted
merclsu- tiny 90's craftsman side chest boxes. These go for crazy money and most never see one in person, let alone find multiple at the same time
Michael_in_DE- ridiculous $18 baby wilton. Absolutley crushed this one!

These are just some of the highlights from this thread. I couldn't mention every find and the highlights are a bit subjective based upon the reader and their interests. As members we posted some odd things. I talked about acquiring home decor and furniture with my wife this year much to the dismay of many in my readership I'm sure . Also I talked about Vintage Christmas candles on here...I'm sure this is a garage sale thread first and most readers probably moved right on to the next post. But this goes to show how quickly this thread can turn and how you have to be on your toes as you never know what will happen next! This thread can be a proverbial swap meet of sorts. Row after row of junk until you find that one table that is packed full of your kind of stuff! You have to show up in order to see what you can find.

I really appreciate everyone's efforts this year and look forward to seeing what RTM has in store for us in 2024!

 

[bmwrd0]

Wow, I am actually speechless.

Thanks, once again, everybody! I do just want to say that picking through the tiny bits, digging through old boxes and drawers, is one of my favorite things. I do it quite happily, much to my long suffering wife's chagrin.

So, in the immortal words of my wife "I found a dead rat in the basement!"

"It is just a mouse, keep digging."

-BMWRD0

 

[BlueBomber]

Wow, I am actually speechless.

Thanks, once again, everybody! I do just want to say that picking through the tiny bits, digging through old boxes and drawers, is one of my favorite things. I do it quite happily, much to my long suffering wife's chagrin.

So, in the immortal words of my wife "I found a dead rat in the basement!"

"It is just a mouse, keep digging."

-BMWRD0

Now THAT is a classic quote for this thread--congrats on the sweep of awards, Beemer!

 

[BlueBomber]

Holy smokes, you are killing it! You find any cool desoto or plymouth caps in there?

Well, well. Turns out I did have a pair of Plymouth covers in there, these from a late 70s Plymouth Volare!

 

[Outlawmws]

So, in the immortal words of my wife "I found a dead rat in the basement!"

"It is just a mouse, keep digging."

Haha! I found a dead/mumified cat once. I kept digging...

 

[Smokeshow69]

Haha! I found a dead/mumified cat once. I kept digging...

My old house had a liquified squirrel in the basement. I left it there for the new owner

 

[Smokeshow69]

Well, well. Turns out I did have a pair of Plymouth covers in there, these from a late 70s Plymouth Volare!

I’m sure some discerning volare collector will be there will be enamored with them for sure! What are are doing with the spares/singles? eBay?