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What's worth saving?

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Rick Young

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I need to reduce my storage space.
The first box from my S-3 I have several:
Starters
Generators
Clutch discs
Clutch covers.
What's worth saving?
Thanks,
Rick
 
Your asking a tought question - same question I (and my wife) is asking. My rule of thumb is: you probably only need one spare so get ride of dups and keep the best. Parts like clutch discs you probably would end up buying new if ever needed anyway IMO, otherwise - that most common rule of thumb is: anything you keep you probably will never need, anything you get rid of you will. Best to you
 
All of them can used as return cores for refurbishment. Times are changing and not everything can be bought as new anymore for ex. clutch discs or covers...
 
The clutch covers seem to be getting harder to obtain according to recent posts.....not sure why as for the earlier cars they cross red with other LBC .. but I guess all are 60+ year old cars now...
 
Michael, the excellent supply days for our cars are definitely over. We are trying to promote to our club mates not to throw away any single bit which has the slightest chance of getting refurbed. Not even rear brake shoes...
 
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Thanks for your replies. The thought that I would throw something out, especially car related, is new to me.
 
I would never wish to speak about someone else hanging onto unused car parts ( look at my garage) , but if you don’t want them, there is probably a forum member who would— and use them.
There are “parts for sale” and “free to a good home”. I myself took advantage of an offer by a generous local man who gave me a gearbox. Another tired old saying “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure”.
 
When I was a District Sales Manager for BMW motorcycles in 5 southern states, I’d go to every dealership that closed or gave up the franchise and bought out all their leftover inventory then sold it (cheap) or traded to BMW vintage club members. Mostly traded. No idea how many bikes were saved.

Never scrap parts.
 
I had to organize all of my parts when my wife and I moved from St. Louis to NY. I was amazed at how many duplicates I had, especially of some of the V6 parts I'd bought over the years. I had lots of space in St. Louis and could just throw some big stuff up into the rafters of the garage and forget about it. For my wife, the discovery that I had 14 gas tanks is the best example of what I found. But, as we get Matt's SV (https://forum.sunbeamalpine.org/index.php?threads/free-to-a-good-home-former-member.32787/ - more on this later) back on the road, one of the early discoveries was pin holes in the driver side gas tank. It was a simple matter to pull one out of stock and replace the bad one. So, sometimes being a pack rat has its benefits.
 
IMHO-Only-it’s been my experience that if I need what should be a $100 part but haven’t found it in what seems like forever, and someone else has one that’s probably a $30 part but in the same situation, and you can shake hands on it, then great.

How much time are you willing to burn continuing searching? Time you can spend driving . Time is priceless. Save parts. Doesn’t matter if you have 12 left handed widgets. Hang on to them. Someone else is looking for them. As a club, the best we can do is help preserve each other’s cars.
 
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