I see things...Wonderful things...

[Bruce Lancaster]

Good commute this morning--as I approached work I saw a three-drawer pullout tool chest segment by the curb in a pile of old appliances...WHOA!!...Tire smoking bootleg turn across three lanes of bumpertobumper New Jersey...throwitinbackseatandflee...
Got to the parking lot too late to investigate, but the slightly open drawers showed a mix of clunky 1930's wrenches and chrome 1950's American stuff and a body hammer and a bag with GM on it...no Taiwan showing. Feels like Christmas eve--hafta wait eight hours before I can open it!!!

[Kevin Lee]

Wow...maybe that was only the first load? "My goodness all of these drawers are heavy, we'll have to clean the rest of the garage out tomorrow." I've scored a few baloon tired bikes this way....keep checking back. And check your e-mail soon.

[Action Girl]

Nothing like finding a treasure!

Stacey

[AV8 Dave]

Bruce ya gotta love those piles of garage-sale-non-selling FREE stuff people put out nowadays eh? I keep my eyes peeled too - scored a nice extractor fan a while back. Good free stuff ROCKS! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Regards, Dave.

[FRITZ]

maybe some dude was moving and was comeing around the corner with a U-Haull truck,......LOL
FRITZ

[Flatdog]

Bruce,thats one of best things about jersey. I am always on the look out myself.I got some great stuff on clean up week too.Nice.

[4t64rd]

That's what I hate about living here, nothing older than the early 70's. Retirees only bring their mint green golf pants and wedding china, then buy new pastel furniture to stock their condos and trailers.

They leave their good stuff in NY, NJ, MI, OH, and PA. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Bruce Lancaster]

Madison, NJ has GREAT garbage--most folks are MUCH richer than me, lots of households have been here forever, and most are too rich and busy to bother with garage sales--plus, local garbage regulations allow people tp put out anything at any time. I haven't bought any household stuff except food for thirty years--the trash here is way upscale from what I could buy new!

[hotrodladycrusr]

Great score! I did alittle dumpster driving in a neighbors driveway dumpster a couple of weeks ago and landed some tools and misc gardening stuff. Family of the deceased through out EVERTHING. Didn't even get dirty http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[DrJ]

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That's what I hate about living here, nothing older than the early 70's. Retirees only bring their mint green golf pants and wedding china, then buy new pastel furniture to stock their condos and trailers.

They leave their good stuff in NY, NJ, MI, OH, and PA. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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There's a song about and called Western Florida That the chorus goes;
"Let's go cruise the Western Coast of Florida,
It might bore ya some,
But ther ain't no stoned out hippies to bother you.

I got a promo copy from a friend who owned the label back in the 70s.
it's from a guy named Bat McGrath and it's on an album (vinyl!) called At the Blue Eagle. http://www.batmcgrath.com/ check it out, it splains a lot about W.FLA in a kind-joking kind of way.

[james]

4T- I know your pain. I hate when other people brag about flea market or garage sale finds. Here it's pretty much 70's junk. I did find a Lance Mountain skate deck sticking out of a trash can a week ago, and a few months ago I found an old school GT bmx frame and a newer aluminum diamond back BMX frame.

[Unkl Ian]

I found an old Kennedy machinist chest at a yard sale,cheap.It had some shitty old British Whitworth wrenches in it.Sold them for enough to cover the cost of the box.Freebie.Zip.Nada.

[cleatus]

Hey! my Grandpa in NJ just called to say that someone just stole his toolbox which he had rolled out front to work on his wash machine!

[Deuce Rails]

Nice score, Bruce!

(I even got your King Tut / Carter reference...)

[BELLM]

Some of my best tools I have found on the roadway or in trunk or under back seat junk cars I have bought. Scored a nice pair sidecutters out of 85 Chev PU bought few weeks ago. I always check under seats, in trunks, pull out back seat etc as soon as i get em home. Bought a repoed Harley back in 70s, I saw in wrecker yard, had bag on back, locked, full of Snap On tools, every one had a different set of initials scribed on them! I love free stuff!!

[dixiedog]

HELL YEAH on the free stuff -
tonight is trash nite - There is 6 of us split up in 3 teams and scour the hoods for anything with a gas motor tools etc.. This all takes place after playing poker and drinking a few pops about 10 pm. It is interesting what you can find, last week scored a nice little floor jack and a wheelbarrow for a firewall. Then we meet back up and declare a winner http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I might even find that $10K 12sec honda that was on ebay a few posts back - and dispose of it properly

[jeffro]

I was driving home on day from work one day I saw a engine block sitting on the side of the road. So I pull over and see a crate sitting next to it full of pistons mains, waterpump, all kinds of shit. So I rush home snag my bro, and head back. We loaded up that shit and took it home. Turned out to be a Mopar 400 block, with pistons to match, and damn near everything but the heads. I thought that was a good score!