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Old 10-22-2020, 01:48 PM   #15
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Default Re: Your most useless NOS parts

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Originally Posted by Greg Jones View Post
Back in the 1980's I was restoring a Model T and snatched up almost any NOS part I could find. Later, I learned that some of it was actually stuff that, while "new," was incorrectly made (bolt holes out of place, etc., casting off center). That is probably why it has survived-the repair man knew it wouldn't work and tossed it into a pile. And along I come decades later......
I was going to post something like that. There is a surprising amount of parts out there that were miss made back in the day by Fords suppliers and should have been recycled from the start, but somehow made it back into the parts stream.
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