What vital piece of junk are you keeping?

[hillmanimpman]

it must be me as i am making mine bigger i decided to extend my shed 3ft so i can repair my car in there

heres whats in my shed

Mk1 escort roof
mk1 escort rear quarter panels both of them
mk1 boot floor
mk1 rear parcel shelf and rear hingers
front bulkhead and scuttle panel

also 3 raliegh sturmey archer bikes
one xk40 front wing not even sure where that came from
allegro carpet set in 70s brown
two marina wings
and a log burner

just been tidying i think i have way to much

[JPB]

one xk40 front wing not even sure where that came from

I'm just guessing here, but I'd say it came from some sort of Jaguar?

[rob76gt]

All of the above!

Plus I purchased a set of drawings and build manual for a J C Locust in 1989. Nothing in the intervening 22-years would suggest I will ever start the build but I can not throw them out! I did join the Enthusiasts club and still have a Locust Tax disc holder too!
(A JC Locust was a "no kitcar". The body was built from plywood by gluing the plans to the sheets and cutting round them. Chassis was JCs own design of ladder-frame to take Escort or Herald dirty bits although some builders managed to adapt Triumph Spitfires frame. When the body was complete it was skinned with thin Aluminium sheet). I think it is still available today

I was also given someone's full duplicate set of cigarette cards charting F1 to then present day (1989?) I intended to mount them but they are still inside a 3.5" Floppy disk (remember them?) box.

Plus there is one box which contains my brothers Scouting knife (he is now 55!) , a 177 air pistol, Corgi Lotus 72, 2 x "Humbucker" pick-ups from a cheap Japanese Les Paul copy, some fake stained glass paint and lead. I have moved this box to at least 5 new homes including abroad - why?

[Amy]

Oh, goodness me. I'm not even going to start a list of the junk that's kept in the garage (I don't have one, but dad has two, and a cellar).

I do have loads of bits for a Mini. Which were very useful once upon a time, but I got rid of the Mini about 10 years ago... See post in the for sale bit

I took about 5 car loads of stuff to the tip earlier in the year, that made quite a good start on some of the *ahem* valuable possibly useful artefacts that had been stored (aka junk).

We also have a collection of 'useful' metal. Though I think it may actually now be down to just the useful parts, as we had a blitz on it about the same time I was taking stuff to the tip, and got rid of the metal that was more rust than anything else and/or so bent that it wasn't going to be of any use at all I did have to counter various "but I've been keeping that for 30 years!" arguments before I managed to get rid of various things, mind you...

[marc30]

are you interested in selling any of the escort parts , the roof mainly? cheers

[spiny]

I have a large collection of rover 200 lights stashed amongst other stuff in my lockup. I don't have a rover 200 right now, but you never know, one day I might get another

I also seem to be collecting towbars for cars I don't own too, too good to put in the metal bin, but they do take up a lot of space...

oh, and seven mg midget doors, a result of a week of ebay and thinking: "well I won't win them -all- will I ?" ...

[johnc]

When I moved to France some years ago I brought with me a brand new stainless steel exhaust system for an unknown car (amongst spare parts for a resto.project I aquired) which I just could not bring myself to throw it out. Its still in the roof space and shall no doubt remain there forever.

[JPB]

When I moved to France some years ago I brought with me a brand new stainless steel exhaust system for an unknown car (amongst spare parts for a resto.project I aquired) which I just could not bring myself to throw it out. Its still in the roof space and shall no doubt remain there forever.

Put a picture of it up to the parts for sale section; there's bound to be someone here who knows what it's for.

[dazzy]

Hi there, the escort scuttle, bulkhead and boot hinge panel sound like just what im after, do you still have them? thanks.

[hillmanimpman]

i still have the escort bits but it will take a good offer for me to sell them
please PM me