What do you all do with the extra parts that you have when you upgrade/replace? I have some rear window trim pieces, a nice set of door sill plates, a nice driver side trunk trim piece and a really nice set of door armrest rest trim pieces for my '72 Supreme. I really have no use for any of it, and its taking up space in my garage. Despite listing it all for sale here on the site, nobody seems interested. I don't really wanna toss them, so maybe I'll just give them away for shipping only. Or perhaps trade?

I dunno...

Thoughts?

 

Keep the parts and sell them with the car. Don't get rid of them. Ask me how I know.

 

I have the same dilemma, I hate to throw anything away. I have even considered to bury them in my backyard, at least I know they found a good home.

 

I keep everything. I have many boxes of parts in the garage, along with an entire dual exhaust system, a disassembled 455 engine, a disassembled 400E engine, and 3 spare rearends behind the garage.

 

You really need all that empty space in the kitchen cabinets?

 

Ha ha Norm...try and explain that to the wife...lol

 

She'll never know if it's never used empty space.

 

I gave the engine and transmission to a deserving friend, non serviceable stuff not worth saving were thrown out, while a set of rear control arms are crammed under the air compressor on the floor. Other odd performance parts are sitting on shelves in my garage. I also have some soon to be wall art.

 

I will admit to having collected way more spare parts than I'll ever use. I've sold some here, some on ebay, and once in a while offered something for shipping costs rather than toss it. John

 

I just returned from the PIR swap meet in Portland, OR where I sold a "68 auto console and shifter, Olds chrome valve covers, a reproduction dual snorkel air cleaner and some Cutlass inner fender rubbers. Normally all I sell is GM F body stuff. There has been a disturbance in the force.

 

Any parts original to the Olds, I keep. If I ever sell, they'll go with the car. Anything that was a repop, depending on the condition, I either trash or sell.

 

Last car before my 4-4-2 was a '68 Camaro SS. I kept all the parts I (or the PO) had taken off it and ended up with: a Q-Jet, a Carter AFB, a Powerglide, a Hurst Competition Plus, ram's-horn exhaust manifolds, a points distributor, a Mallory dual-point, Chevy orange valve covers, an alternator, complete and functional power drum brake setup, factory iron intake, a set of factory wheels and hubcaps, taillight bezels. and a couple of boxes of miscellaneous small parts.

When I sold the car, the new owner wanted nothing to do with any of that, not even the factory stuff specific to the car, so I sold what I could at swap meets and gave away the balance to a friend of mine who owned a shop and had done me some favors.

Apparently I never learned my lesson, as the area under my workbench is currently stuffed with old, odd and spare 4-4-2 parts with which I will again attempt to burden the next owner.

 

I try to sell what i know i won't use usually dirt cheap.it seems like most stuff is only valuable when you're trying to buy it . a lot of stuff ive just tossed out because i dont have space for it and nobody wants it.