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Posted: 4/10/2013 4:57:06 PM EDT
Not mine, but at these prices, I'm definitely abandoning my 602 build 
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I just bought one for $75.
Good retro score. I'm definitely abandoning my 602 build. Don't abandon just put on back burner. One can always lower price it's pretty hard to raise it. Item is kinda rare and not for the thrifty or actual performance minded anyway. If libs and morons in power get their way this stuff is gonna be the only thing available dirt cheap in very possibly the near future. Used Surplus so called pre ban Colt 20 rd mags are bringing $5 in Ct actual home of the Colt if one knows where to shop. I just picked up 19 for less than $1C shipped and some were very very nice and showed no wear. |
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I saw it prior to this post, and frankly I have to come out in defence of the seller. 601 stuff is ridiculous now for those of us who remember, but what would you pay for an original, GTO tri-power set-up today? I had $100 pad of $150 when my '67 LeMans was stolen, and a line on some Cragars as well. The carbs needed to be rebuilt, but I had it in my possession when I threw the timing chain. I would think market rate would be about $125, but we are talking about something that only 14,000 some were made. Yes, they made spares, but still. I believe the future of retro is repro, but I paid $100 for a transitional bolt catch, and that was at least 5 years ago. Man up or go home. If you want the right part, then just do it. If you are starting a 601 build, don't be stupid, wait for NDS, but if that's the one part you need...
BTW - thats the way it is here - I STILL hear about guys backing off of a an auction when they hear a member here really needs it to complete a build. This attitude is what MAKES this forum such a cool place. If some dickhead buys it and puts it on GB for $300, well, that's the way it is. I think it's slightly high as it is, but knowing the seller, I think he'd work with the right guy. The key on this forum is to help each of us complete the build. This has been lost a little with the price of parts going up and folks building a roomful of rifles because they had the money to buy nice parts. Regardless, a nice retro build is a nice retro build...so who you gonna leave it to in your will? Some punk who will sell the early 602 upper cheap to pay for an Mp3 / iphone input on the stock and the latest tacticool furniture? It'll happen. I planned on 5-6 builds, but life intrudes. I will still likely end up with 5-6 builds, but I know they will go to kids who appreciate them. I believe in a guy making a profit - hell, most of the time I have, and have many pennies to show for it.  Usually because I'd congratulate myself and turn around and buy something off the EE that I wanted and was a good deal. I know it's competitive. I'M competitive, that's how I scored my XM16E1 BCG, but I want to take a minute and remind folks why we come here, and also why we'd pay so much for that 'one damn part'. Frankly, if I had to money to spare right now, I'd make him an offer. It's a nice part, and hard to find. Period. Go big or go M4.
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what would you pay for an original, GTO tri-power set-up today?
Morg I found one in a junkyard in 1977, paid $110 and the carbs didn't need rebuilding. All linkage, hats and everything. Can't remember what it was out of but I'm thinking a Gran Prix 421 or 428 CI been a long time ago. Sold it to buddy for $200 for his 66 LeMans (don't know name of color but it was that dark Pontiac blue) and he got so much tail with that car. Another friend had 9- 427 Chevy complete motors in his garage 390-435 HP at one time and I know he didn't pay over $800 for any of them all out of wrecked cars. I also remember people stealing the Nitrous tanks from dentist offices before there was any such thing as a nitrous kit. Nbody sniffed it they put it in the engine. Friend had it hooked to his horn relay, saw someone he knew, blew his horn and about killed himself. I knida remember getting the solenoids out of commercial dishwashers. Being of a plumbing back ground I've bend my share of lines under the intake manifold. Ya'll remember street racing on a Fri night or when American Graffiti came out? Heck in the 70's one could go NASCAR racing on a $10K budget. When we were building ARs back in the 80s, we had to sneak the undesirable Edgewater buffers and triangular charging handles into builds we sold at gunshows! I've dumped off three Edgewaters in builds for basically nothing but never had a triangle charging handle. Did get a couple latches in a parts lot one time. Probably been on the EE. As a general rule I've shied away from model 01 pieces besides BCG's. Did recently get a thin green bakelite pg. Been building a model 02 for at least 5 years and haven't been willing to spend or won the auctions. Seen some real deals slip away by minutes/seconds too. Seller has the right to ask what they want. Hope they get it. If they wanted to be a jerk they could report those bashing. I figure to enjoy my AR builds and although there's no one to leave them to, wife has instructions on who to contact if something were to happen. Most all here will quickly shell out the coins for anything they want bad enough. Does anyone complain every time they check out at the grocery store? I remember Twinkies, Fritos, Lays chips etc for 5 cents a pack. Candy rack had 1 cent, 2 cent, 3 cent and 5 cent candy and in many cases portion was larger than today. Dang Tootsie Roll would gag you for a nickel. Let's don't even mention what we pay today for soft drinks! My first pack of cigs was 30 cents from a pull machine so I didn't have to pay the 2 cent tax. No one asked for an ID either. Also remember minimum wage was $2 an hour and any lip and you were immediately fired. Back then people earned their coins and taking a handout was unheard of unless your house burned down. Now everything is sugarcoated. 12 million American kids are hooked on Amphetamines by doctors, teachers and guidance counselors and people wonder why the politicians want to ban guns. How many aren't gonna be our future drug addicts? 5% tops! Kids were retarded back in the day, not mentally challenged and real quality doctors only charged $10 per visit. It wasn't alright to screw up either. Screw up = fired, not a promotion. Lawyers were considered by most as second class citizens just like in the rest of the world. Question for the VN vets. What was a months salary for jungle rot or possibly lead poisoning in 1968? I'm kinda stuck on $120/month but that sounds kinda low. |
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I had a batch of original demilled triangular charging handles rewelded back in the 90s. I had them re anodized looked pretty good and nobody wanted them, I sold a few for like $20. Couldn't barely give them away then retro just wasn't popular then. I should have saved them.
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what would you pay for an original, GTO tri-power set-up today? Question for the VN vets. What was a months salary for jungle rot or possibly lead poisoning in 1968? I'm kinda stuck on $120/month but that sounds kinda low. I'm not a 'Nam vet, but... E3 with less than two years in got $167.70 a month, plus $65 hostile fire, plus $9 overseas duty. |
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what would you pay for an original, GTO tri-power set-up today? Question for the VN vets. What was a months salary for jungle rot or possibly lead poisoning in 1968? I'm kinda stuck on $120/month but that sounds kinda low. I'm not a 'Nam vet, but... E3 with less than two years in got $167.70 a month, plus $65 hostile fire, plus $9 overseas duty. About $240 - Still doesn't sound like much does it? |
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