[njsteve]

I could never understand why people do that. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img]

I sold a 440 six barrel 1971 cuda ragtop (1 of 12 automatics) back in 1988. Eight years later I found the original set of carbs for the car. You can only imagine what that set was worth! I simply just gave them to the guy I sold the car to, who still had the car, because they belonged with the car.

Fast forward another 10 years or so and I found the original owners manual packet in a long forgotten drawer of paperwork. I called the same guy up and told him what I had found for him. After years of getting ripped off by other people he had bought cars from, he was somewhat jaded and asked me how much I wanted for it. I replied: &quot;lunch...and a tour of the collection so I could see the car again.&quot; We we both quite happy with the deal.

Similar story with my old 1971 440 six barrel, four speed Cuda ragtop (1 of 5). When I sold it in 1986, the buyer drove it home to Indiana from my house. He decided to leave the original numbers-matching four speed tranny behind with me because he didn't really want to carry it home, and it needed rebuilding anyway. A couple years later I called him up and reminded him of what I had. I told him to come on back and pick it up, no charge of course. I just wanted it reunited with the car.

What goes around comes around. In 1991, the entire dealer file folder on my 70 hemi charger R/T-SE showed up in my mailbox one day from a then-employee of the original selling dealership in NJ who had found it in the dumpster during a cleanup day. What do you think that was worth? It had every piece of paperwork you could imagine in it, down to the dealer prep work order documenting the set of headers installed by that same employee's father back in 1970 at the same dealership.

I'm a firm believer in the The Golden Rule.