I have a couple of Challenger flat hoods, one a 72-74, one a 70 with no crumple zones, and a 73 Charger hood listed locally for sale. I put $150 obo. These are not rusted but have a couple of small dings. Not a single call or text. OBO means make me an offer. I'm turning 68 years old soon and I'm tired of dealing with selling parts. I'm going to list them once more at $75 obo and wait a few days. I'm going to call a very good friend who has a couple of storage trailers for parts to see if he wants them for free. If no interest, I'll load them on the trailer and throw them in the recycle dumpster at the local dump. Next will be good doors I have. Time to really clean house. I hate to scrap good parts but oh well. I'm losing my patience dealing with people and parts. When selling parts on here, I give a price and someone can counter offer. Most times, I practically give the parts away. It's getting easier to scrap the parts. I can be to the dump in 10 minutes. Just venting Thanks.
Terry
Most of us are in te same situation collectin parts for years , Criminal to scrap it
I agree. I'm hoping my friend will take them. He's 20 years younger than me. I might have to throw in a Harms shaker kit with bubble to get him to take them. He was over a couple of months ago and I loaded him up with Challenger interior parts and outside trim, doors, valances, seats, etc. for free. When my dad died back in December, my sisters and I had to go through my parents stuff that they wouldn't part with. What a sad task that was. I don't want my wife or kids to have to go through that for me.
Terry
I know the feeling.
I was contacted by a member here interested in something I had and agreed to the price.
So I dug everything out, took a bunch of pictures, downsized them, forwarded about 10 emails, writing him a small novel how everything went together.
Searched out and secured a sturdy box after he agreed on price, bought and wrapped well in bubble wrap, got quotes from UPS, Fed-Ex.
Drove it to the post office ,weighed it, made up the label and told him we were ready to proceed and he agreed to send payment.
A couple hours later got the email stating he's changed his mine...gave me an apology for my time, etc.
About 4 hours of my life I'll never get back.
Bring back the old days.
HA.....this is another reason why I don't like to ship stuff :headbang:
Yeah flat hoods used to be an easy sell for shaker conversions but now with the AMD shaker hoods on the market I don't think too many bother with them anymore. Any time I have brought doors to swap meets like Carlisle or Englishtown they have always sold quickly for me if complete with the glass and regulator, etc. :dunno:
Hope someone comes thru for you. I listed my flat perfect condition74 hood for nada. And crickets....
Lets face it, big items like doors, fenders, hoods etc... have always been a problem to ship reasonably. The place to go were the local show, swaps but that avenue has been closed this year. Craigs list.. Try local to you car restoration shops or classic body shops. They buy parts, they just need to know that someone is selling them. Make more calls, e-mail more sits. You can't undo scrap.
Good thing everybody didn't do that years ago when we needed parts.
The reproduction Mopar market has moved forward by leaps and bounds in the last decade so selling old used parts has become and will continue to get harder and harder as more new parts come out.... :alan2cents:
Yup: I know the feeling. Guys will pick up the phone and order repro Chinese junk for more though. Just because it's easy.
I bet a lot of suppliers will be out of business soon parts will become a lot more difficult to find :alan2cents:
...and if it wasn't for the "Chinese junk" , a lot of cars would not be getting restored. I like nothing more then seeing a gutted shell being pulled from a field where it was stripped of parts and left for dead, but now someone is willing to breath new life it it...Chinese parts or not :dunno:
Naming all reproduction parts as "Chinese junk" is kind of unfair as well. You can blame our Governments for making it too expensive to have parts manufactured in North America. A lot of reproduction parts are :dunno: designed here and just manufactured over seas.... Tony's Parts comes to mind....In my opinion everything he's ever released has been of the highest quality....I don't want to speak for
@TONY (https://forum.e-bodies.org/mlist/tony_147) but I know for certain that some of his stuff is manufactured in Asia.
I've been wanting a decent flat hood for my Challenger project but every time I find one, it's so far away that it's just not worth it. I'd gladly pay $150 for one if it were closer to Southern California. Even when I find them in California, it's still 6 hours one way.
Quote from: 70 Challenger Lover on July 29, 2020, 08:50:29 PM
I've been wanting a decent flat hood for my Challenger project but every time I find one, it's so far away that it's just not worth it. I'd gladly pay $150 for one if it were closer to Southern California. Even when I find them in California, it's still 6 hours one way.
If you drive all the way up here, I'll give you a hood for free.
@YellowThumper (https://forum.e-bodies.org/mlist/yellowthumper_324) is in So Cal and tried to get rid of one. Maybe he still has it? Hopefully my friend who lives here will take the parts.
Terry :yes:
It's a great offer and I appreciate it! I'm just getting too old myself to spend 20 hours in a truck (each way).
Maybe Cody would bring it down when he goes to the fall fling. I'm sure I could throw some gas money his way along with a box of doughnuts!
Not my thread or my intention with post. But yes I still have the hood. PM if there is an interest.
Would be pick up only.
When I replaced my flat hood on my '70 Challenger with a power bulge hood I had picked up a few years back. I set the hood aside with no intention to use it again. The sheet metal is nice except has 2 small holes ( 5/8" each) on each side of hood where I had installed hood pins, not factory pins just some Pep Boys after markets that attach to the radiator support and then secured them with small pad locks. The hood is otherwise in very nice condition. I'm located in SoCal not far from "yellow thumper". Wouldn't mind selling it. But, this is not a shipping item for me. Thanks, Al
The more parts in circulation, the lower the prices, the bigger the draw to Mopars. It pains me to see my friends hoard good parts only to never use them or have any intention of them being sent to a good home. Even as a younger member I've found my fair share of deals thankfully.
So I guess my point is your prices are fair, and someone, maybe a next generation builder, appreciates your efforts to get them sold to a new home.
Try Facebook Marketplace! No fees and plenty of eyeballs on it.
I stripped my 74 Barracuda for the modern build and have sold almost every single part off the thing - Many of which I assumed were worthless, but didn't want to take out of circulation.
- I try to ask for a bit less than the cheapest eBay price and it takes a while sometimes, but its all back in use.
- Shipping is a pain in the ass, but sometimes that's the only way - and UPS has flat rate if the box is small enough.
Note: I'm pretty sure UPS will just throw heavy stuff in the garbage if you don't pay for insurance. I mean, how do you lose a f*$&ing K-Frame during shipment?
I think the number or people restoring cars is dwindling as there seems to be a lot fewer interested in buying parts in recent years. I don`t have a lot of stuff to sell but items that used to get a lot of interest barely get one or two repsonses, and these are parts not reproduced. Large items are always a tough sell as they are too much trouble to ship so that limits you to local buyers.
Sometimes shipping is the only way some of us get parts. In the mountains of Colorado I'm about as far away from any parts as I can get with exception of Alaska.
Unfortunately it does take some time to get rid of the larger parts. I'm driving to San Diego to get an A body K frame. He won't ship it and has had it for almost 2 years
Sucks to crush parts. Someone wants them. But I understand. I had 3 69 grand prix hoods that I couldn't get rid of, took em to the recycler. No one wanted them here in Colorado.
I think part of the issue is younger generation has not grown up learning the mechanical skillsets necessary for fab work.
More and more are the "push a button" and brand new magically arrives on your doorstep generation.
That wants are there but the skillsets are not for increasingly larger percentages.
When I retired I sold most of my big items that I had laying around for years. I will sell the rest of the good parts that I don't use. I've got a few more restorations left in me and when I'm done I figure I'll either give most away which I'm doing already with some things and if that doesn't work I'll dump it.
Quote from: YellowThumper on July 30, 2020, 07:37:16 AM
I think part of the issue is younger generation has not grown up learning the mechanical skillsets necessary for fab work.
More and more are the "push a button" and brand new magically arrives on your doorstep generation.
That wants are there but the skillsets are not for increasingly larger percentages.
Most all of the younger people around here drive newer cars for toys - Mustangs, Camaros, Chalengers etc. and even a lot of the older people. I only know a few younger guys that actually work on/restore the old stuff, most don`t have the passion it takes to restore a rusty old car.
Boy I'm with you on the parts problem. Before I moved to Florida I cleaned out a lot of stuff and tossed most in the garbage. I still have a repro AAR hood I bought about 15 years ago. After painting and installing on my car I really didn't like the way my car looked so I went back to the power bulge hood. It's been sitting in my garage ever since. Much to big to ship and after asking around locally I have no takers. I'd be willing to let it go really cheap. Let's face it US workers just can't compete with Chinese labor. Our work is as good and as fast but no US worker wants to work for low pay and no benefits. Our cost of living is to high. And compared to Chevy and Ford parts there is just not that high of a demand for Mopar parts to get the cost down thru volume.
I feel your pain. I started selling off my parts 2 years ago and was lucky enough to sell 2/3 of them. I had mostly good experiences and dealt with a lot of great people. I got the occasional Jackass butt hat is common. Shipping is a pain and is so expensive but that is how I got rid of most of my parts. I took a beating on some because repro were available and had to lower the prices to make it worth wild for people to buy the original parts instead.
Good Luck
JS27
Quote from: Joegrapes on July 30, 2020, 08:33:54 AM
Boy I'm with you on the parts problem. Before I moved to Florida I cleaned out a lot of stuff and tossed most in the garbage. I still have a repro AAR hood I bought about 15 years ago. After painting and installing on my car I really didn't like the way my car looked so I went back to the power bulge hood. It's been sitting in my garage ever since. Much to big to ship and after asking around locally I have no takers. I'd be willing to let it go really cheap. Let's face it US workers just can't compete with Chinese labor. Our work is as good and as fast but no US worker wants to work for low pay and no benefits. Our cost of living is to high. And compared to Chevy and Ford parts there is just not that high of a demand for Mopar parts to get the cost down thru volume.
I`d love that hood but we had to cancel plans for our Florida trip to Disney etc. this fall so won`t be down there till April.
Update. My friend has agreed to come get the two flat hoods and any other parts I need to get rid of and put them in his storage units. Now, I don't have to recycle them at the scrap yard.
Terry
I'm glad the parts won't get wasted, and hope they find a good home someday!
I too have stuff I'd love to find a new home for sitting around cluttering the house.
I have a set of extra tires and wheels for my Ram 1500 I sold 10 years ago, and don't know what to do with. The wheels are nice, I was so happy when I found them as they were the optional wheels my truck didn't have. I'd run them in the fair weather months and put the other set on for winter.
Tire place wants $50 to remove the tires and scrap them, I hate to spend that to cut my clutter down to just 4 wheels I will probably never find a buyer for!
I hate to ship stuff that won't fit in USPS one price boxes. Such a pain to package and find out shipping. So I have a Challenger bumper and driver quality 70 grille I'll probably be tripping over for the rest of my life!
Hoping to get back in the pickup truck ownership world soon, so maybe I'll do a few Mopar swap meets in the near future, they are always good places to dispose of stuff!
Quote from: JH27N0B on August 08, 2020, 09:17:51 AM
I'm glad the parts won't get wasted, and hope they find a good home someday!
I too have stuff I'd love to find a new home for sitting around cluttering the house.
I have a set of extra tires and wheels for my Ram 1500 I sold 10 years ago, and don't know what to do with. The wheels are nice, I was so happy when I found them as they were the optional wheels my truck didn't have. I'd run them in the fair weather months and put the other set on for winter.
Tire place wants $50 to remove the tires and scrap them, I hate to spend that to cut my clutter down to just 4 wheels I will probably never find a buyer for!
I hate to ship stuff that won't fit in USPS one price boxes. Such a pain to package and find out shipping. So I have a Challenger bumper and driver quality 70 grille I'll probably be tripping over for the rest of my life!
Hoping to get back in the pickup truck ownership world soon, so maybe I'll do a few Mopar swap meets in the near future, they are always good places to dispose of stuff!
@JH27N0B (https://forum.e-bodies.org/mlist/jh27n0b_308)
Truck tires with their big sidewalls are pretty easy to remove from the wheel with pry bars... Then the tire place should take them for a $2 recycling fee...
Use a bumper jack to break the bead & a couple pry bars , I could have all four tires off in 30 minutes or less....
Cool, I was thinking of trying to remove the tires myself if I get a truck, none of my current cars sit high enough to put the tire under and a jack on the sidewall to try to break the bead, or is there another way?
Quote from: 71vert340 on August 08, 2020, 06:05:11 AM
Update. My friend has agreed to come get the two flat hoods and any other parts I need to get rid of and put them in his storage units. Now, I don't have to recycle them at the scrap yard.
Terry
I would be interested in the Harms Shaker kit if you are looking to sell and willing to ship. I already have a flat hood and bubble for the conversion.
You mentioned that you have doors. What have you got? I need a drivers door for a 70. I'd prefer a 70, but may take other if a 70 proves elusive. I'm in Boise, so I'd drive up to see ya no problem. :)
I have one drivers door. My friend came and got the other doors. He has a 72 Challenger and they were 72 doors.
Terry
Quote from: 71vert340 on August 08, 2020, 12:54:55 PM
I have one drivers door. My friend came and got the other doors. He has a 72 Challenger and they were 72 doors.
Terry
What's the condition and how much do you want for it?
I'll get some help to get it out of the back of my shop, get it outside, and take a few photos. I got the door in a trade and need to look at the condition.
Terry
Quote from: JH27N0B on August 08, 2020, 11:36:09 AM
Cool, I was thinking of trying to remove the tires myself if I get a truck, none of my current cars sit high enough to put the tire under and a jack on the sidewall to try to break the bead, or is there another way?
A truck would be best, What I do is use a bumper jack without the bottom piece (the foot) I put the column on the tire tight to the rim/bead junction angling the jack slightly toward the rim... An older car with real bumpers will work, obviously a driver/beater not your assorted Challengers... Though in my younger days I did break a few beads using my old Charger...
As Jeff Foxworthy would say "You might be a Redneck". Yup, & proud of it.... Rednecks will survive while certain other groups become extinct.... :rofl:
Quote from: 1 Wild R/T on August 08, 2020, 11:44:35 PM
Quote from: JH27N0B on August 08, 2020, 11:36:09 AM
Cool, I was thinking of trying to remove the tires myself if I get a truck, none of my current cars sit high enough to put the tire under and a jack on the sidewall to try to break the bead, or is there another way?
A truck would be best, What I do is use a bumper jack without the bottom piece (the foot) I put the column on the tire tight to the rim/bead junction angling the jack slightly toward the rim... An older car with real bumpers will work, obviously a driver/beater not your assorted Challengers... Though in my younger days I did break a few beads using my old Charger...
As Jeff Foxworthy would say "You might be a Redneck". Yup, & proud of it.... Rednecks will survive while certain other groups become extinct.... :rofl:
SAWZAL
They are trash anyway.
This method looks interesting, I'd just need to buy a couple straps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyuZhj3fnw