Thanks for the kudos on the PotY trophy. It was fun putting it together and hey, its gets some of my junk...er, treasures, yeah, treasures out of my garage.
So who's going to get it? That's up to all of you. I spent several hours poring over entries on this thread. I first tried going through the posts of the most prolific posters...but after two days walking through just PrivateLugnutz's posts, I thought I was in the home stretch until I realized the GJ search functions taps out at 500 posts. So, I switched tactics. The stated criteria in post #1 was the trophy would be "for the individual with 20 or more posts on this thread who has the best overall year of finds". So I searched for posts the generated "You ****" type responses from the rest of us. That was a much more managable list and one that was a lot of fun to review! Man, some of you folks found some really great deals! Wilton vises for pocket change, monster hauls for cheap money, and at least once,
a free bronze 200 year old lamp!
I'm sure I missed a few, but of the folks with over 20 posts, I found 110 individual posts from 41 people that resulted in assessments of decreased atmospheric pressure. Some folks had one or two. bmwrd0 netted eleven!
I also found a lot of fantastic finds that did not generate suckage. Some of our regulars turn up stuff weekend after weekend. Example: Private Lugnutz
averaged more than 6 unique unique posts
per month of flea market finds. Outlawsmws was similarly prolific. While both of them garnered some YS's, I felt that several of our "top producers" should get consideration for sheer quantity--not of overall posts, but of finds.
I had to make some tough choices to to get the list down to 10, mostly because that's the limit for a Garage Journal poll. I hope no one feels dissed or left out. Remember, this is all in good fun, and the only prize for "winning" is a slapped together mash-up of leftover junk from my garage. We all win by getting to revel in each others finds and sharing our knowledge with each other.
Okay, so here are the finalists (the post totals are from about a week ago):
bmwrd0
Total Posts: 232
Total You *****: 11
Davefr
Total Posts: 47
Total You *****: 9
Outlawmws
Total Posts: 570
Total You *****: 8
Provincial
Total Posts: 146
Total You *****: 8
youinreverse
Total Posts: 36
Total You *****: 7
3baygarage
Total Posts: 275
Total You *****: 3
txlonghorn1989
Total Posts: 210
Total You *****: 3
Private Lugnutz
Total Posts: 590
Total You *****: 2
LesserSon
Total Posts: 221
Total You *****: 2
d42jeep
Total Posts: 222
Total You *****: 1
Each of the finalists' user names should link to a GJ search result for their 2019 GJGS posts so you can do your own research on their finds. The poll for voting is
right here in the General Tool Discussion forum.
Good luck to all the candidates--voting will be open for one week!
This is going to be fun!!
This could only have been done by a Hokie! Ut Prosim!