NOS Parts?

[CG]

Seems like the same small group of people keep coming up with the nice NOS parts for sale.

Id like to know what they know, skip the middle man stuff

[demian5]

I have a box of them I am am going to dig out tonight.

[HO455]

I believe its about how obsessed with the hobby you get. I used to work with a guy who spent most of his off time gathering Honda motorcycle parts. Everyone he met would get questions about if they knew of any bikes. He would go to library's to look in old phone books for defunct dealerships and when he found one he would spend days trying to contact the old owners or their families to try and locate a lost pile of parts. This has lead to a certain extent the higher prices that are being asked for parts. They feel that the fact they have a hundred hours into locating some part they should get paid for that time, even though no one asked them to.
Okay done with the soap box.

[In The Ten Ring]

The same guys on here do seem to constantly be running into NOS stuff, I assume they get it at these truck meets I hear about from time to time.

I have bought either NOS or OEM parts for my truck. The inner fenders were NOS and the seller bought them in the 1980's from a body shop and never used them. An outer fender came from a board vender, I think he found that in a barn attic. Core support is OEM from a board vendor's junkyard. I have some NOS parts I haven't used yet but will at some point.

[mrein3]

When I started driving I owned a 1972 Chevelle. I still own that car but that is a different story.

As a typical young kid I had various jobs around town to make some money. I was working at a green house one spring. The first day I drove my Chevelle to work the owner comes running out of one of the green houses and starts rapping on my front fenders right behind the wheels. After the second one he says, "Darn!"

I replied what do you mean darn. Those are good fenders. He says he was hoping I needed one because he had one he'd let go for $75.

Well I wasn't rich and NOS parts weren't traded like gold bullion at that time so I said no thanks.

A couple of years later I had moved on to another crappy teen-ager type job and actually did have a little spending money. I procured a 1971 Chevelle that did need fenders. This was the late 80s in the rust belt where a 1971 Chevelle, convertible or not, was just a rusty old car ready for the scrap heap.

So back to the green house I go.

"Do you still have that fender you want to sell?"
"Yup"
"Can I buy it?"
"Yup"
"How much?"
"What did I tell you last time?"
"$75 but you and I know it is worth much more than that."
"Seventy-five bucks."

That is how I came to purchase a NOS, still in the box, Left Front Fender for my Chevelle for $75 when the going price was about $500.

I see a 1970 RH fender on ebay now. In the box. $1250.
I should have left mine in the box.