When I got my 68 Z28 6 years I ago,I did an NCRS shipping report. Selling dealer was Ed Randell Chevytown in Portland OR.
I went on eBay the same day to look if anything came up. A licence plate frame was listed and I bought it. Never seen anything else since.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's, before they were repopped, I was on the hunt for a set of Pontiac Rally I center caps.

I had looked all over and just about given up when I saw a VW bug drive by - with Rally I's on the back.

The guy must have had some kind of wheel adapters in order to install the wheels. I chased him down and had the worst time conveying to him what I wanted. He kept saying "if I sell those, how will I get to work?".

He thought I was trying to get wheels and all. Ended up buying two caps for $20. I think I still have them.

K

Just noticed that cap is not correct: it should have either the black base, or the black pinstripe in the dome, but not both...

K

The other story that comes to mind occurred after Dad passed away and I was cleaning up a bit in the garage.

I knew he had this '63 Super Duty "bathtub" intake, and I knew I would never use it, so I decided to sell.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/23d1c1c7.jpg

When I picked the intake up it was sitting on a piece of plywood. What I didn't know until just then was that there was a '61-'62 dual quad Super Duty intake underneath that.

And then a second '61-62 intake under that.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/000_3043.jpg

K

Dad used to have so much stuff in the back garage that there was just a little trail from the door over to the workbench.

He had so many Pontiac Tripowers that he used to use them for door stops.

We lived in that house starting in 1969 and I never saw the top of that workbench until he passed away in 2005. He always had it covered with a protective piece of cardboard and then all the stuff he was working on piled on top of that.

I cleaned it off and removed the cardboard - and was amazed to find a highly polished piece of beaverboard, with 1.5" brushed angle aluminum all around the periphery, with mitered corners and stainless flathead screws countersunk until they were flush.

It was absolutely beautiful. And I had no idea.


K

In about 2005 , seen a ad for a estate auction in a small town about 30 miles away, in one of the flats I seen a 66 knee knocker 7g tach. Bought the flat for 10.00, still have the tach.
At that aucton was a 22 calibur pen gun (size of a ink pen), forget what it sold for, wish I would have bought it. Oh Well!!!!

----Couple of things, Keith. 1st. that garage must have been like your own swap meet with no one out bidding you!

----2nd. Tell us about the 63 Lemans. An older buddy back in 1963 had a new 326 stick convertible and I thought it was so slick, but that one in triple white is really cool, especially with the Rally 1's. It was quick to my 15 year old brain, and I've laughed to myself a couple of times noting that I had no idea what was going to happen in the Pontiac nation a year later!.....Bill S

Finding rare parts at a swap meet is not a strange place. I used to attend Spring Carlisle Regularly 1994-2005. On one of those trips, scanning the North Field I cam across a GM,console mounted Casette player, very rare for a early 1970’s GM. I bought it for $100.00.
About 10 minutes later, we came across another vendor who had one and in promoting how rare they were, said “ when have you EVER seen one”. I said ,about 10 minutes ago,as I pulled it out of my back pack. Never seen one since.

Went to an estate auction where there was a bunch of car stuff. Going through one box marked "Corvair parts" at the very bottom was a complete roll of NOS white string trunk weatherstrip in excellent condition. The rest of the box contained used parts not worth anything. I carefully tucked the WS back in the bottom and put the box under the table where I found it. When it came up for bid I was the one and only bidder at $10.

Went to a local car show with a small swap meet, I bought an nos ac 212cw air filter for $3.

They went nuts on EBay and the Ncrs board, sold for $375