Jeez, I'm trying to get rid of my junk and no one wants any of it. I've put most stuff as best offer. I hate to junk useful stuff. I mean, I guess if no one wants a bunch of small block parts that's fine to junk... But a complete running 302 and 390? No one wants a 100 horse Johnson outboard in good mechanical condition? I mean come on, 125 PSI on the dot in all 4 and lots of guys are restoring these vintage outboards these days. "Make offer and come get it" and no takers.

Looking like I'll be sending them to scrap soon. Was asking $200 each but I guess that was too much. Now it's make a reasonable offer. Not gonna give running engines to strangers for $20, but all the other stuff I'd rather give to someone for $5. Hell, $5 is lunch. Whatever, at this it'll all be melted down soon, 4 running engines included.

Had the convertible up on Craigslist for a while. Asking a little more than I have into it just to see if anyone is interested. Not a single e-mail or phone call.

Maybe I just don't know how to sell stuff? How about you guys, you have any luck selling stuff on Craigslist? Anywhere else to sell this type of stuff? Trying to advertise stuff local so don't have to deal with shipping stuff. I hardly have any time... Go to work when it's dark and come home at about a million-o-clock.

Yes, in fact I just sold the radiator from my old Mustang earlier this evening. Most of the stuff I have to relist a few times (i.e. it takes a few months) and I usually sell stuff pretty cheap.

But sometimes if you list it for more money, people think it's worth more and buy it. For example, I wanted to get rid of the camper from my 1968 Ford "camper special" F250. I literally couldn't give it away. So I sold it for $300.

Well sometimes one mans junk is well... still junk

Wrong time of year to be selling stuff. People are broke from Christmas shopping. Wait until the income checks start rolling in, and you'll be able to get decent coin for the goods.

Best offer generally means 'junk' to anybody reading an ad. A detailed description, along with a reasonable, but not too low price will bring in buyers. Pictures also help.

Put the 390 on the FE forum. Somebody there will gladly take it off your hands. http://fordfe.com They have a classifieds section.

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eeeeewwwww, now that's some junk...

Corey, that Johnson should bring you $100 bucks easy... Did you offer the boat motor on e-bay? The listing and one pic would cost you about $2.10

Well the guy who was weird about making an offer now says he has $100. It's worth probably 2x-3x that since it's mechanically sound. Probably worth even more to someone restoring a boat that originally came with it.. They only made that motor for two years. Anyhow, I told him I'd take $100, becuase I need it gone. Rather see it go to use then sit in my garage forever.

Ought to ba a law. $100 for an outboard is a good deal - try pricing a small new one. If I didn't have other things on the agenda, I'd come after the 302 and the 390. Aren't you near Azle or am I confused.

1967 Falcon 4 door 351C-4V
1970 Mustang 351C-2V
http://raceabilene.com/kelly/hotrod
Owner built, owner abused.

You could try a Police Auction! LOL

I'm in NJ about 15 minutes from Philadelphia. So if anyone in the area wants some stuff... It's gotta go so real cheap.


Eric, good idea. I don't want to put heavy items on there that aren't worth a lot because shipping will be as much as the item. I don't ahve anything terribly rare so probably wouldn't sell. I took pics of my convertible and of my Elsinore so i'm gonna put those on eBay tonight. Worth a shot. Don't really want to sell the convertible but don't have the time for it so it'll just end up sitting. Granted it's a solid running driving car... Only room to store one car inside though, so I'd prefer to be rid of it. I enjoyed it for a few months in the warm weather though, it was my daily driver 'till I got my truck a couple weeks ago.

Well, this Saturday I'm gonna try taking as much stuff as I can for scrap. Make a couple bucks and clean up. All the small block stuff is going, except a few brackets and misc things like that which may be useful and don't take up much space. Probably gonna junk the running 302 from my old truck as well since there is no interest in it. Will hang on to the 390 for a while longer before that goes to scrap. I will try the FE forum for that.

Also have a couple FMX transmissions that worked fine when pulled, and a C4 that worked when pulled. No one seems to want that stuff either so it's gonna get scrapped too I suppose.

I'd put it all on there and see what happens. Just put "local pickup or buyer-arranged freight only" on the heavy stuff.  I think I mentioned that I sold a 351W for nearly $600 bucks a while back!  Best part was that the winning bid was local, so they came and got it.  I'd had it on Craigs and a local classified ads for weeks at half the price without a nibble

You should try to sell 3/4 ton trucks here...

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3/4 ton trucks, eh? I bought my '86 250 extended cab a few weeks ago for $700 and spent $100 for tune-up stuff. Mechanically sound and not bad body (minor rot on each side udner extended cab). My buddy bought an '89 for $4500. Same truck as mine but fuel injected (ugh!) and lots of rattles and vibrations... Bad ball joints, carrier bearing, rotted to all get-out wheel well on the passenger side. His has a ZF5 and BW1356 and mine a C6and NP208, but I'll be putting my ZF5 in there in the next week or two. That rmeinds me... His ZF5 makes a lot of whining noises and such, sounds like bad bearings. Also "whirrs" a lot when you push the clutch. Sounds like a bad throwout bearing to me.

I felt bad for him when he told me how much he paid for it, but hey, at least he's driving a Ford again.

Jeez, dug thorugh eBay to find listing fees... $90 to sell a car, $70 to sell a motorcycle... Maybe I won't list the convertible or the Elsinore. I'm just looking to get out of them what I have into them, now I'd have to jack the reserve up to compensate, reducing chance of selling and wasting my money. Ugh, ridiculous. I gotta think about this one. Maybe I'll just list parts since their fees there are more reasonable.

I put 3 cars on ebay right after the upped the fees like 1000% & got less that scrap price for them. I will never sell a car or bike on ebay again no matter the fee

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Damn, the paper isn't much better. $50 to list a bare bones ad. Screw listing in paper then!

One of our local television stations has a free classifieds section on their website that gets a massive amount of traffic - might be worth seeing if any of the Philly stations have something similar?  http://www.ksl.com/?nid=13

As Mike said, right now is the worst time to peddle car parts on eBay. Cars nor parts are moving for any money. In fact, I'm thinking about buying some parts...performance intakes do well for me, to list a bit later. You have Christmas in less than a month and then W-2 time in January. I've got a fair amount of stuff to eBay now but won't until  about the first week of February. If gas wasn't so freakin' expensive, particularly with a 12 mpg truck, I'd come over to Elizabethtown from Ohio and either buy you out if the stuff is cheap enough or make you a deal for me to do the selling and we'd split the profits.

I've never done Craigslist though my buddy tried it. He listed his '84 Mustang GT...used to be mine, and just got bugged by a bunch of mouthbreathers with no $$$. 

 

 

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