You Know You Are a Dedicated Weekend Mechanic...

when you stop to pick up hardware in the street. I was walking through the parking lot yesterday when I spotted something shiny on the asphalt - it wasn't money but it was a nice looking, larger sized washer. So I stooped over to pick it up and put it in my car thinking that it might come in handy some time. Boy, how cheap can one get?

Thats not cheap , thats resourcefulness.
No, on second thought that is cheap!

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I don't even want to mention this, but since you guys have started... My dad tells me one day he saw a shelf of some kind sitting in front of someone's yard waiting to be picked up(bulk trash). I agree to go with him to see if we could take it(talk first to owner, of course). I couldn't believe my eyes when I got there, there was a parts washer bin(those yellow and red ones) next to it! Only things bad was rust spots on the top and a leg that needed rewelding. Now I have a parts washer bin..for free!! As they say, some people's trash is another's treasure!

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Jeff
1976 911S

Now, bear in mind I have only done this once, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Once a month, and one by one, the neighborhoods in Seattle have a 'trash day.' it is a day when folks can place all manner of discarded items on the curb and the refuse folks will take it away.

Liek everywhere else, there is conspicuous money in pockets of Seattle. Those neighborhoods ($1 million+ homes) are rewarding to cruise on trash day. Brand new, expensive stuff!

I am an admitted (and not rehabilitated) scrounger of parts and tools. I love pawn shops. And I have jars and jars of fasteners, washers and all shapes of metal, plastic and rubber, shall we say, "items."

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'83 SC

I clicked on this post because I thought it was going to talk about clocking in 12 hr days in the Garage with the porsche.
nevertheless, back in the younger days, I used to flip washing machings over for the sake of motors and belts...for god knows what. This was every wed night "heavy night" in the city.

Amen! Get that washer!

Nothing leaves my house that is mechanical that does not get stripped of wires and bolts... Granted now I have drawers of odds and ends I will never use, but what the hell.

Hey a few weeks ago I got a Type 4 block with internals for $2! The guy was going to junk it for scrap metal and I just asked how much, he said $2. Done. Now I have a perfect block bored .025 mains and std cam bores to be rebuilt. My bus might get 2.0 type 4 power instead of 3.0 SC power... I doubt I will find a 911 SC on the curb waiting to be picked apart.

It pays to have your eyes open for garage sales and junk on the curbs.

There are two ways of accumulating wealth, with a good offense or a good defense... I like to play both sides of the field whenever possible.


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Adrian Pillow
1979 911 SC
1966 VW Microbus
PCA - Peachstate Region

You know you're a dedicated weekend mechanic when....


You spend most of Friday afternoon driving around town to pick up all the parts for whatever project you've got planned for this weekend.




You find yourself looking through the ads from the parts and tool places instead of the live music or movie listings.




While everyone else is trying to recover from thier hangover on Jan 1st, you're cleaning out and re-arranging the garage.




You actually would rather spend hours on a creeper underneath your project car scraping off all of the old undercoating instead of watching the NFL playoffs.




You mount a TV in the corner over the workbench (and crawl all over the attic to run cable to it) so you WON'T miss Daytona qualifying (500 and Rolex) while you're scraping off undercoating.




You can't tell what color your garage walls are supposed to be because they're completely covered with racing posters.




All the kids in the neighborhood bring their bikes to you to fix-and the parents always call you for jumpstarts (and the occasional valve job)




There's an ongoing battle over which appliance gets to use the 220v outlet in the garage-YOUR air compressor or HER dryer.




Yours is the only lawnmower (or a floor jack, in some cases) in the subdivision with a flame job.




You know more about the suspension on your brothers' lifted Jeep TJ than HE does-(and he drives it all the time.)




You find yourself rotating tires on the wife's minivan every other week-just because it gives you an excuse to use your impact wrench.

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Clay Mcguill www.geocities.com/the912guy

[This message has been edited by ClayMcguill (edited 01-26-2001).]