Casey Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 A post regarding clear headlight lenses got me thinking about a specific type of part which everybody seems to need, but nobody wants to give up. I'll admit I hoard nicely molded, clear headlight lenses as they're rarely easy to find, difficult to make, and easily lost. When you find nice ones, you keep 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 six cylinder engines. I probably have a few dozen set aside. Last time that Spotlight Hobbies had the Lindberg '64 Plymouth on sale I bought another half dozen for the slant sixs. I also hoard the flathead six from the '41 Plymouth kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantrix Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Disk brakes. There are lots of them made, but very few look good. Good 1/24 engines. I always seem to end up with 1/24 kits, but very few have good engines. Wide whites and steelies. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Brian Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Sets of big and little tires and wheels, good carbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imarriedawitch Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Tubbed chassis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Mirrors, antennas, wipers, door handles, dummy spotlights, headlight lenses, red taillights, whitewall tires, chrome reversed wheels, spinner hubcaps...... Just to name a few... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordRodnKustom Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Anything vintage, including decals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bartrop Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Big & little tires, Deuce grilles & track noses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 23 minutes ago, FordRodnKustom said: Anything vintage, including decals. Yeah, pretty much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan White Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Wheels and tires in general. You never know what will work unless you can try different combos both together, and with the kit itself. I will occasionally look on ebay for wheel and tire sets that interest me so I have more of a selection in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 License plate decals......... They're often just the finishing touch a model needs...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Smith Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Steel wheels. Tires. Non-V8 engines. Headlights. Decals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshaver Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Ramfins59 said: Mirrors, antennas, wipers, door handles, dummy spotlights, headlight lenses, red taillights, whitewall tires, chrome reversed wheels, spinner hubcaps...... Just to name a few... I'm gonna second this ....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I'm a hoarder and I throw away nothing. I have used parts that I have sometimes had for years, as soon as you throw anything away you're going to need it. Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Sikora II Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Tires! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426 pack Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, espo said: I'm a hoarder and I throw away nothing. I have used parts that I have sometimes had for years, as soon as you throw anything away you're going to need it.   I’m the same way. I don’t even throw away the parts trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, espo said: I'm a hoarder and I throw away nothing. ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Um ... Parts! Anything that seems like it be useful in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 2 hours ago, espo said: I'm a hoarder and I throw away nothing. I have used parts that I have sometimes had for years, as soon as you throw anything away you're going to need it.   Yup. Back in the late 1960s, I got a bunch of special tools for flathead engines in with a lot of other stuff. Nobody wanted anything to do with flatheads. They were considered boat anchors, and hundreds of tons of them, quite literally, were sold for scrap. Fast forward to 2011. I went to work with a shop that built "traditional" rods, many of them flathead powered. I still had all the tools (and hadn't lost them the two times my shops were robbed, because they lived in cardboard boxes and not the big shiny red ones). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khils Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 14 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said: .......because they lived in cardboard boxes and not the big shiny red ones) Hey Bill.....I wonder if that tactic would work with my hard earned money! .....& my wife??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake45 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 American Torq-Thrusts. Keystone Klassic Kustomags. Thin Cragars (deep ones are common). Good open steel wheels. And good big and little (especially big) tires to fit them all. Hilborn injection for small block Chevy. The tubes in the AMT '55 Nomad are so long you can cut them into two sets, and use the extras on the tube-less intakes in the Double Dragster. Good headers for almost any V8, though they're a lot more common now than they used to be back in the '60s. Original AMT annual '63-'67 Corvette parts, stock or custom. Especially the hard tops in the '65-'67 roadsters. And I have two of the panel truck tops I have plans for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie1 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I hoard it all!!!!! Jeff Marsh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBcritter Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Obsolete custom parts (like AMT Styline stuff that Round2 will never bring back), and vintage IMC compact Goodyear tires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemodeler Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Like others, wheels and tires and for some reason, they are also what I tend to order from resin casters! I also have about a dozen of the snow plows from Revell's GMC pickup kit. I plan to install them on various other trucks in due time. I probably would have been better off learning how to resin cast them but figured I could trade the trucks (which I did!) and use the plows. I have also "collected" about 8 or 9 of the MPC Deserter pickup kits to use as donors for 4wd conversions of other trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 PLASTIC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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