Hot Rods What is your weakness - What Parts do you have a fettish for???

Mine is project cars....I have way more than I can do....I'll have to live to be 175 to finish them all.

 

Cheap odds-n-ends '50s and older wall-hanger hubcaps.

 

Old dash boards that I repaint, put together and hang on my garage wall.
Just love em

 

T andA solid american man!

 

Some cool stuff I've seen at swapmeets....
The 3x2 Y-block intake setup is a Ford prototype....

 

I have a drawer for S/W gauges, got one for trick interior lights, another one for Hurst shifter parts...
Use to collect American torque thrust wheels but they became too damned expensive.
Also collect Pontiac and SBC engines and high performance/speed parts. Have two storage units rented and garage is full ...it's a disease. Oh, and I own 5 different T-5 trannys and a saginaw 4 speed. Oh yes, and also #3300 and #3326 AFB carbs. Got 6 or 7 of 'em.

 

One of those T-5's with a 3.35 first gear ratio will work well with your chevy 302 engine...

 

If its a good deal I pretty much buy it...lights,dash boards, intakes,engines...its all good...got a 31 lasalle dash I pretty fond of...

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Chrysler flat head six cylinder engines and/or parts. If I can hoard enough of them by the time everyone else figures out they are the engine of choice I will be RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it is a fettish. I get a hard on every time I see one!

 

QUITTER!

 

32 grille shells

 

Hood ornaments...

 

I've always collected parts I've needed for my cars. And parts I don't need for my cars. But my biggest problem is keeping used parts after I've sold cars.
Retiring and moving to Florida helped. I junked and gave away many things I had no use for. Like the grille horsie from my new 1965 Mustang, carburetors off my 49 Olds, old VW fuel pumps, Model T and Model A stuff from almost a 100 years ago. Well, a long time ago!
But something I can't explain was/is my picking up every old hubcap and license plate I've seen along ditches, flea, markets, and junk yards. Like a big mouthed Bass, those shiny things sucked me in! Now I've got 100 miscellaneous hubcaps and license plates just collecting dust.
I'd stop along a 12 lane superhighway in a rainstorm to talk my wife into running a 1/2 mile back to pick up a bent hubcap.

 

Anything rare small block Chevy I try to buy. Worse than drugs.........

 

Big block Chevy engines mainly. Sold a few, now down to 13 I think. Hey, they look good in everything.....

 

Any old cars or parts that seem like a good value. Of course free is the best value. I'll drag home rusty crap thinking that maybe I'll find the other half someday and have a good whole one. I really have a thing for engines though, anything out of the ordinary.
I have this anxiety that when I find it at a decent price I gotta have it cause I might not find another I can afford. Even if its something I don't need.

 

I have a really hard time sticking stickers on things. I love to collect 'em though.

I'm also pretty gay for blinged out OT carbon fiber parts. Especially race cars or airplane parts.

NAES

 

Not HAMB friendly, but since you asked: I collect RX7 FD stuff. Bits of trim, electrical things, solenoids, rotors, anything I can get cheap for my petrol slurping rotary.

 

Headlights, valve covers, speedometers & tachs.

 

I buy anything sheetmetal wise for 39-46 chevy trucks.41-48 chevy car dashes and any metal embossed coolers.I think my woman is getting tired of the cooler colection though.She rolls her eyes every time i buy one.

 

Stock gauge clusters, i almost always leave a swap meet with a set

 

I didn't have any specific things before but this thread has given me some ideas of things to collect. I'm not saying what though, I wouldn't want to drive up the competition level haha..

 

I feel your pain. Actually, I'm doing better. I'm down to five project cars.

 

Intakes and superchargers. To me, the induction is the focal point of a hot rod.

 

Norman Rockwell Prints.

 

56 chevy hubcaps...

Every swap meet I go to I bring the lot with me to try to sell them.
...I always come home with at least another one as hard as I try not to.

and a bunch of old fishbowl filters.

 

Wide Five Hub Caps and Cadillac Valve Covers


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Finned aluminum parts. Why? I have no clue.

 

I could get to like Norman Rockwell prints!