What a deal!!

[restoman]

Back in the sixties myself and a few friends searched old ford dealers all through most of NEW York state in search of NOS parts. There were many interesting experiences and one now comes to mind. In Camillus New York we found a storage room full of real goodies. None of had any money. We proceeded to pick out a small pile of treasures in hopes of an affordable price. The parts man turned that decision over to the owner, a friendly old fellow. He priced the chosen parts at $100.00. We didn't have $100.00 between the two of us. Sensing our dilemma he then made us another offer. He said the whole room full was $50.00 but we had to take it all !! Looking back it was an amazing haul and we made a good profit selling the surplus for 10% of what they would bring now. I have many good stories and I will continue to tell some in the future.

[nickthebandit]

Back in the late 1950's / early 1960's 3 people, Mike Gentic, Phil Champagne, and Dave Ahearn, started an antique auto parts business, Age Old Auto Parts in Hartford, Connecticut Mike was a parts man at a local Ford dealership, and knew a lot of the right people. The 3 of them got into many Ford dealership to clean out old stock. They were the "go to guys" for early Ford parts. When re-development came through in the early 1970's, they went out of business. At that time, Russ Schaller ( RIP) and myself started "The Ford Store" in Manchester, Connecticut. We were able to acquire a lot of parts from the Age Old Auto Parts defunct business, but not everything. It was too bad that we didn't get everything. Unfortunately Russ and I had to shut down our business in the mid 1970's when the oil crunch hit, and people didn't spend their money on their hobby.

[Westernswede]

I'm just here for the post count. Thanks

[matterick]

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Originally Posted by Westernswede

I'm just here for the post count. Thanks

Me too lol