Anyone Else Buy Stuff You Don't Need?

Uhm......yes

I cant afford the stuff I actually need right now, so thats a no. @Mstng93SSP , do you want a running, but super dirty and tired 302 to go with your T-5??? Just pulled it out and will give you a great deal!!!!

I have FedEx or ups arrive to drop off a package at least every other day. My wife doesn't even bat an eye anymore.... I mean I grabbed an old propane grill off the side of the road just so I can steal the s.s. sheeting off of it...... Maybe if I need it..... at some point.... eventually....

Mstng93SSP said:

I just can't pass up a deal.....even if I don't need it. Yesterday I saw an ad for a T-5 trans out of a 93 Mustang 5.0 for $75. I just had to look..... Went and checked it out. Tremec T-5Z that appears to be in good condition. Owner said it was in his sons car, and that the car just got too rusty so they pulled stuff to sell. $75 bucks?? Ummm yeah it went home with me. Do I need it? No. Will I do yet another T-5 swap into one of my foxes....probably not but for the price I had to grab it.

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If it has 3rd gear that doesn't grind you can flip it to me haha

Mustang5L5 said:

Here's my latest vice of crap I don't need. A few more not shown, but trying to get one from every year.

Before 1930 they can get a bit pricey. I have a 1916 in the mail. My wife is starting to get annoyed



As for car parts, I'm starting to offload a lot of stuff I don't need. $20 here and there. Big sale once in a while. Starting to clear out a decade or so of hoarding. Is it wrong I get "attached" to having parts around? I have a NOS bullitt wheel I bought for my old GT that I never used that I just can't sell.

Remember when I bought this for no reason? I'll never use it but since it's rare I won't sell it.

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Just out of curiosity what do the pre 1930 plates go for?
We have a 1914 MA. plate that was in my wife's family.

Saw someone on line who turned a T-5 into a lamp base,for his man cave .Looked pretty cool .

Davedacarpainter said:

Uhm......yes

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You have no idea how bad i want to come hang out with you for and afternoon, rummage around and hear all the minutia behind that menagerie.

I mean, technically everything we buy in this hobby isn't stuff we "need" haha.

One thing I am bad about is buying tools and then leaving them untouched, still in their box, for months, sometimes years.

"Oh yea, I can definitely use that palm sander, someday..."

Small electronic parts, computer parts and hand tools are my weakness.

There is a box of miscellaneous caps, resistors and ICs that I bought with the intention of fixing computer monitors that just sits around. Fixing the monitors isn't worth the time it consumes unless I got the monitor for free...

There is a spare 320 GB laptop hard drive I bought for $18 off of ebay because I didn't know how good the software format and test utilities were. If I had used the software format and test programs, I could have saved the $18 and an evening's worth of time.

There are 3 Snap-On metric sockets I bought with a $50 gift certificate that have been sitting in my tool box metric drawer for 3 years. I don't think that I have ever used them.