That most of us are actually organized hoarders? Think about it. If we get a chance to snag stuff for free or cheap we do. Those that have room one truck simply will not do. We try and save the old ones.(kinda like giving a rescue dog a forever home)
I know at one time I had 4 trucks. 1 in garage, 1 in driveway and 2 in backyard. I live in town and have a privacy fence but still, you just can't do that in town. I knew I had to do something so I ended up parting 1 out, scraped 2 others and kept the last. The last one ended dying of cancer but the drivetrain lives on in the 77 RC. I still have parts for a 80's model truck though. Never know when one might end up in the driveway. ;) See? Already planning on it happening. And my wife knows I'm chompin' at the bit to get a megacab diesel. She asked if I got the megacab would I get rid of the 01 1500. I just looked at her, turned and walked. She knew then that the 01 stays. Why would I want to get rid of it? It's a great truck with decent miles.(around 78k) and that's the last year of that bodystyle in the 1500.(see? can justify hanging on to it for numerous reasons that only make sense to me)
If I have my way I'd have my 77 RC, my 01 Ram 1500 and a newer megacab diesel. But still not sure it would end there. I really want to do a 2wd pop top and big block it and air bag the suspension and satin black paint. :laughing7: If this is a sickness,,,,,, I don't want a cure.
im not sure if they made 2wd poptops. ive never seen one.
I can't argue. I am a selective and skilled horder ;D
I started out with select old computer stuff, or stuff from growing up that I liked.
It has expanded, I had my 92 RC that was too cancered with rust, so I stripped it down to nothing and scrapped it. I have A lot of it left in my garage, though I did sell out a good bit of it to help fund future projects. I then got the 91 RC which is now getting the interior and engine of the 92. I sold off some parts of the 91 that I did not need/ want.
I then found the 2000 RC, once its finished it will be my daily driver and I will sell the 91 buick which currently does that. See selective lol
I have just recently got the 93 RC for a trail rig... So I have 3 RC 1 durango and a buick. I use the "logic" that its ok because they are all paid for... no payment = ok :dontknow:
But while I like to "keep things I see as having value" they must keep value. I have rules... My cars go in the garage, not my junk. we have a 3 car garage and until I removed engines out of the 92 and 91, all 3 bays had cars. Even now 2 of the 3 have cars. Soon all 3 will again. Same goes in my house... I don't mind keeping things, but they need a place, even if its in a box in the attic. I can't stand clutter... my kitchen counters need to be clean and free of junk. All "main" family area's do... now my study... that is a holy mess right now... I have plastics from 3 ramchargers in there and I have 4 of the 91-93 grilles that I am working to refurbish lol
I think holding onto things is a human nature, but we must balance it and control it before it controls us. Saying that I have no plan to let go of any of my ram chargers. the 91 is to be a "show truck" not that I plan to go to shows, but just to have a nice one. The 2000 will be my nice daily driver, and the 93 a beat up trail rig.
Quote from: phillip637 on October 26, 2012, 09:03:22 AM
im not sure if they made 2wd poptops. ive never seen one.
They did, just hard to find is all.(i guess according to some people that qualifies as "rare") ;D
Ryan I totally agree. There has to be balance, restraint. I hold on to certain parts if they are known good parts i.e. starters, alts, t-cases... I did a massive clean out last spring, had to happen. I went to get the mower out and thought "damn, it's starting. Better do something" so I did.
I dislike clutter too. As if my upbringing wasn't enough 23 years in the service really drove that home. lol. I won't say my place is better homes and gardens material but people can stop by anytime and I'm not ashamed. ;)
I've got a 2 car garage, and it's narrow. My 77 stays in there, permanent resident. My road king has the other bay from early march through early November then that goes to my dads for the winter so his electra doesn't get lonely. Usually keep the bay open for wrenching purposes during the winter and if it's due to get real nasty I pull my wife's pt in there.(facing out so easier for her) When working in, what I consider, confined space you have to be selective. Room gets chewed up fast. The rule for the garage, if I don't put it there, it doesn't go there. That's my playground. No lawn equipment, chairs etc. I do park my wife's bicycle in there during the summer. I'm such a great husband. ;)
I like my trucks and my harley and the wife puts up with it. If I'm out there "playing" she knows where I'm at and I can't get in much trouble. She lets me have my mistress' as long as they're metal. lol.
i have to agree. i keep as much as i can but once i start trippen over it i start getting pissed and try cleaning up. i am currently getting rid of some 2x4's that were taking up about 3 feet of driveway space and were 4ft long. i also put the 2 plastic tool boxes that were sitting in my driveway in the back of my truck. made about 5-6ft of room but with the way things are the back of my truck could cover a couple feet of crap.
I have to agree with you on the hoading part. I have stuff in my garage I should throw away but can't seem to do it because it works.
I can throw working stuff away, if its a $5 part I use once every 5 years then throw it out and buy it again when needed.
as for larger items, if I have no immediate need I sale, keeps the cash flowing for projects :laughing7:
depend on what the working stuff is. sometimes i will just give the working stuff away for free. let some other hoarder take it or use it.
you should see all the bicycle parts in my back yard. i need to start fixing them up so that when spring comes around i can sell them. i think i made $200 last spring selling bikes. $80 of that came from bikes i had just pull out of the trash and put air in the tires.
Is this like an intervention :o are you all ganging up on me :hello: how did you know a buddy of mine and me were going to spend all day Sat. digging through a couple of other hoarders parts stashes? :headbang: It seemed like a respectable hobby when we went to salvage yards and found parts cars to buy. Now we are picking over each others hoards...sadness....despair.....nah, we're going to have a blast !
Are my eyes deceiving me? Did I just find a support group?
:wave:Hi my name is Duane and I hoard mopars.
I am not one of those who plans on keeping every thing forever. Everything is for sale and heck I give parts away to local dodge guys if i do not plan on using them.
Good to know there are others out there.
Quote from: mopar_daddy on October 26, 2012, 09:39:33 PM
Are my eyes deceiving me? Did I just find a support group?
:wave:Hi my name is Duane and I hoard mopars.
I am not one of those who plans on keeping every thing forever. Everything is for sale and heck I give parts away to local dodge guys if i do not plan on using them.
Good to know there are others out there.
Duane is a hoarder of awesome dodge TRUCKS AND CARS but he is not a greedy one. Thanks for the bumper Duane. Next time you need help let me know.
I always need help :happy3:. I usually just figure out a way to do it by myself. Just think Terry you just saw my outdoor storage yard. If your ever board just text me I've always got something going on. I have to go pick up another RC frame tomorrow and then Sunday I figure I will go up chain the 93 frame to the dak frame and use the winch to pull the 99 dak body onto the 93 RC frame.
Quote from: phillip637 on October 26, 2012, 09:03:22 AM
im not sure if they made 2wd poptops. ive never seen one.
Danger Dave has a 2X poptop so I know they're out there.
I'm thinking about putting up a storage at my inlaws so I don't have to run parts to and from my home for the RC I'm working on. If I do, it will be my fourth storage shed. Two are at my parents, one at my place and then one at my inlaws. I'm already tripping over stuff at my garage at home so maybe this will help. Where does it end?? :dontknow:
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I only have 5 Ramchargers, a 01 1500, 1985 W350 and the wife has a 96 Jeep. No clue what the crazyness you are talking about. Oh and the Back of one RC is filled to the top with parts that I have found at JY's and said to the wife "hey babe I think I can use that lets get it" (she is my junk yard buddy, we will waste hours in one walking around and pulling parts for my Goats and her Jeep thing. :dontknow:
Quote from: SixGun on October 27, 2012, 12:32:42 AM
Where does it end?? :dontknow:
usually with a back injury :crybaby2: truck stuff is heavy. :tongue3:
I had a 79 2x pop top... ended up scrappin it cuz nobody wanted it....
Quote from: taz_man440 on October 27, 2012, 10:35:19 PM
I had a 79 2x pop top... ended up scrappin it cuz nobody wanted it....
Aww hell. Figures. :crybaby2:
Oh, and I forgot to add that my son is worse. I've tried showing him how to hoard properly. Always think of area so you're not tripping over stuff, make sure it is something you(or a buddy) can use etc. What's he do? Just brings home random stuff. Other day I walk in the garage and there's two holley's sitting on the floor. I go in and ask him where they came from and he says "school".(he's in the auto program at the high school) I ask what they go to, answer, I don't know but Barrs(teacher) said I can have them. Now that's the kind of hoarding I don't like. These were factory carbs(more than likely GM) and really I have no use for them. There are times I truly understand why animals eat their young. ;)
Now I agree with Ryan, if there's a $5 part and I haven't used it, thought about but been having to move it around for 6 months, it's gone. It's cheap, I'll get another if I need it. If nothing else chances are I'll forget about it anyways and buy another. ;)
Hahahaha Mojack, it always starts out so innocent and respectable. :laughing7:
Quote from: mopar_daddy on October 26, 2012, 09:39:33 PM
:wave:Hi my name is Duane and I hoard mopars.
Hi Duane. :wave: Come on in, the waters fine. :tongue3:
Quote from: minionsram on October 27, 2012, 01:28:19 AM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I only have 5 Ramchargers, a 01 1500, 1985 W350 and the wife has a 96 Jeep. No clue what the crazyness you are talking about. Oh and the Back of one RC is filled to the top with parts that I have found at JY's and said to the wife "hey babe I think I can use that lets get it" (she is my junk yard buddy, we will waste hours in one walking around and pulling parts for my Goats and her Jeep thing. :dontknow:
And as for you, now that's just being showassy and bragging. Ok, maybe I'm a touch jealous of everything. If I could get my wife to go junkyardin' with me..... Nah, gotta have "me" time occasionally. ;) She'd question too much as to why I'm buying this or that. I like to operate without restraint there. My own restraint is enough, I don't need to feel oppressed. :laughing7:
I'm glad to see I'm not the only with a problem. I have 3 garages and one large shed between my house and my rental house and they are pretty much full. One of them at the rental house is full to the gills with 72-80 Power Wagon parts. Two car garage at home has my Dart in it and no room for wifes Jeep. She don't care as long as I clean the snow off of it in the winter. I also have my boat, atv trailer and a spare box for my 78 Club Cab in the backyard. Plus my 24 ft camper is parked at my Dad's because it won't fit up the driveway at home. Now I have a 16 yr old that is getting into Broncos and is starting his own collection of Ford parts. But I will say this, it is organized at least. When will it end? :dontknow:
i do indeed have a 79 2x4 poptop not far from being at the scrap yard. so if you need anything Richard now is the time.
UNTIL you have stepped on my place you have not been to a true RC museum :thumbsup: lol
sorry i missed the trip but i felt it be best that i didn't make a showing at this time.
DD
Hey Buddy, did you ever make it to the car show with Esther? If so post up some pics.
Quote from: trailduster.dave on October 30, 2012, 09:42:58 PM
i do indeed have a 79 2x4 poptop not far from being at the scrap yard. so if you need anything Richard now is the time.
UNTIL you have stepped on my place you have not been to a true RC museum :thumbsup: lol
sorry i missed the trip but i felt it be best that i didn't make a showing at this time.
DD
Too bad we don't live closer. I'd like to save it from the scrapyard. I just wanna hotrod a 2wd pop top. :steeringwheel:
Reading this thread made me clean up some of my garage on Sunday. The wife came outside after I had been in there a couple of hours to check on me. She thought I was sick because I was cleaning it out.
Quote from: SoCal on November 06, 2012, 05:35:10 PM
Reading this thread made me clean up some of my garage on Sunday. The wife came outside after I had been in there a couple of hours to check on me. She thought I was sick because I was cleaning it out.
OTFLMAO.So you now have room for some of my crap? This type of behavior makes me look bad. Stop it!
Mine got worse, I made a huge mess to get the engine back in the 91 and now the wife is parking in the driveway instead of the garage. Granted I am not sure she could even get her new suburban in there if it was clean with all the other cars in the driveway :laughing7:
Not sure I want her trying either. I have to clean it up before Sat since Richard is coming to get my other 318.
Quote from: mopar_daddy on November 06, 2012, 08:29:28 PM
OTFLMAO.So you now have room for some of my crap? This type of behavior makes me look bad. Stop it!
Heck if you are forcing me to store the 440 big block and the bellhousing that goes with it then I guess I will :dance:
Quote from: rjtx667 on November 07, 2012, 10:38:23 AM
I want I have to clean it up before Sat since Richard is coming to get my other 318.
Woo woo ... yeah buddy. :dance:
I really need to get a little more creative with storage. Just put in a propane furnace in the garage(woohoo!) but that sucked up a little bit of valuable space. And trying to crawl around in the upper storage area of the garage was fun trying to run wire to the breaker panel. Had more stuff up there than what I remembered. Big thing was was not screwing up my new grill for the 77. Never been used on anything, factory, got it for free. Hate to mess that up.
Well I did something I did not think was doable today.
I re-org the garage (translate threw stuff in the back of the 91 and in the attic) and I now have 3 cars back in my garage!!!
The suburban is still way too long, I need to move some shelving but it fits with an inch or so to spare.
The fluid all over the driveway would be power steering fluid from the 91... I found my steering shaft and the high pressure hose, but I am still looking for the low pressure hose I just bought. That sucker is getting heavier all the time lol
Well, my daughter is in her mid 30's. She has been married for 16 or 17 years and has 3 kids. Her husband works for city parks and mows yards for extra income.
I helped her move this weekend. She makes my piles of stuff look small. At least her stuff is lighter (no engine blocks or big stuff). :thumbsup: (http://:thumbsup:)
Oh, I forgot. Her big and heavy stuff is filling up my rented storage space. :happy3: (http://:happy3:)
Wow, that was fast! A complete reshuffling since this last weekend. Looks like a game of musical chairs. Saturday, there was no 2000 RC yet and the white RC was all the way in the left most bay, and the Suburban was in the driveway. Also, the garage space where the RC is was FULL with parts. Good job Ryan. For an encore, let's see you squeeze the other RC in there too. :tongue3:
No thanks, I am still recovering from pushing the 91 all the way over there. :BangHead:
Dang, bravo Ryan. And I thought I did good reloacting my bike over to my dads for the winter freeing a bay up and rearranging to install the furnace. You win! :13:
I like my new organized garage. Its easier to work in now and a lot easier on the eyes
Quote from: SoCal on November 27, 2012, 06:15:02 PM
I like my new organized garage. Its easier to work in now and a lot easier on the eyes
Look out, now your brother in law will want to change out his chevy caviler tranny in there. :violent1:
how do you know him? he already asked if could pull his honda engine out
oooooooohhhhhh, just a wild guess, and of course your tools, etc. Maybe if you give him a deadline to have it out. :-\
When he asked me I got up and pushed my truck in there and told him there was no room. :icon_salut: He knows my tools are off limit. :headbang: My wife knows not to let anyone in there when I am gone. :angry4:
its good when they learn the boundaries... now if we could just get the kids to understand. but then again I never understood when I was a kid, just always borrowed dad's tools :evil6:
I always seemed to leave them in the front yard and when my dad would get up at 4 in the morning to go to work I would have to get up and pick them up. rain, snow or blowing winds I eventually learned my lesson
i need to get more organized. i got tons of tools but can never find what i want when i need it.
Man thats my problem. I can spend a day putting all ( or most) of the tools up and trying to get organized. But 1 big project over several days and its a disaster again lol
I have several sets of tools just for that very reason, hell one set goes with me just about every where I go :steeringwheel:. Never know when you might stumble across a good JY it has paid off a few times :headbang:.
Quote from: rjtx667 on November 30, 2012, 11:37:17 PM
Man thats my problem. I can spend a day putting all ( or most) of the tools up and trying to get organized. But 1 big project over several days and its a disaster again lol
In my case, truck with no roof is outside, garage is scattered building Christmas stuff and a thunderstorm pops up. Now the truck is in the garage and all the tools and the Christmas stuff is in great big pile beside the truck. Wife wants decorations put up. She doesn't go into the garage so it doesn't seem like much to her...
Quote from: workgoats on December 01, 2012, 06:55:58 AM
Wife wants decorations put up. She doesn't go into the garage so it doesn't seem like much to her...
By some miracle, I got this weekend off and the wife has a honey-do list already set up for Saturday with decorations, tree, Christmas shopping all lined up. I made space for 2 motors in the garage and it was all cleaned up. Now I have one torn apart and the cycle starts again.
I wish I had a garage to hoard....er store extra parts I just might need. My small basement is full. Only dark narrow aisles down there.
Quote from: fal308 on December 02, 2012, 01:57:42 PM
I wish I had a garage to hoard....er store extra parts I just might need. My small basement is full. Only dark narrow aisles down there.
And here we are, just wishing we could even have a basement in Texas.
I am slipping further into the abyss, My aforementioned hoarder buddy and I went to Farmington, NC. yesterday. The first weekend in Dec. they have an event called dollar days. It was GREAT weather for a little drag racing and an all brands (not even restricted to car parts, as evidenced by the stuffed monkey for sale) swap meet. There were many drag race parts mostly Chevy, but enough Mopar to keep us interested. I only bought a bellhousing belly pan and some socket organizers, but we had fun.