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Old 12-08-2013, 11:51 PM   #26
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Kind of a junkyard/barn find. 56 Ford F1, with a 354 hemi and push button torqueflite. Lots of guys tried to buy it, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. $500 and a plugged fuel line later, I drove it on the trailer.



We have a winner!!! Awesome score! Those pickups are made for hemi motors!
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Old 12-09-2013, 12:41 AM   #27
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Barn find pushbar ,lol,and a truck ,found in the barn....with his hobby engine
truck was his sons and son was buying parts for it
older retired guy was really cool,gave me part of a F*&D grill,looks like a boomerang lol
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Old 12-09-2013, 11:24 AM   #28
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Clean rust free 89 cab, 4 doors and core support and door panels.$150
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Old 12-09-2013, 03:18 PM   #29
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One of my better junkyard finds, I went just to look around one day and found a mint dashboard for my 1983 Malibu just sitting bare in the back of an EL Camino. I grabbed that fast and paid $20 for it. Original uncracked ones go for over $200 if you can find one. Another time at the same yard I scored a clean tach dash from an El Camino for $20 as well. sold that one for $100.

Best truck score so far was the mint C60 tach dash I got from a guy parting one out in my town. Best part is the tach works great! Paid $30 for it.

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Old 12-10-2013, 09:26 PM   #30
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I've been looking for a 1973 C20 454 grill for some time now, can't find one at our local junkyards here in Phoenix! Any one got one?
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Old 12-11-2013, 05:44 PM   #31
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Best truck score so far was the mint C60 tach dash I got from a guy parting one out in my town. Best part is the tach works great! Paid $30 for it.

I love this tach! How was it wired into the gauge cluster? Manually or through the circuit board?

The spot where the fuel gauge is in your picture is where my "Fasten Seat Belts/CHOKE" lights are currently. I'd love to find one of these and put my original gauge cluster back in with this addition!
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Old 12-11-2013, 05:58 PM   #32
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I've had a few of the big series tach clusters.....they require NO re-pinning. They literally are a plug n play cluster.
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Old 12-11-2013, 09:16 PM   #33
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Yes the main plug requires no re-pinning to work. I dropped in my original C10 speedo into the cluster housing and installed it. The tach has a separate harness for power, ground and tach signal. Real easy
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Old 12-11-2013, 09:27 PM   #34
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I know how the tach is wired, I was referring to the fuel gauge wiring. So if I understand you, you put the C60 cluster in your truck and just swapped out the speedo? What I would want to do is swap my fuel gauge for the tach/fuel combo gauge, which isn't a direct matchup with the circuit board I have.
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Old 12-11-2013, 09:42 PM   #35
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Here's what I did-using my existing unmodified cluster plug-in on my 78 K20 I had at the time which had gauges and a brake light indicator, I dropped in a 79 C60 tach cluster and instead of using a BRAKE indicator where the vacuum gauge was which is independant of the C60 printed circuit, I installed a factory clock in its place. So I ended up with a factory clock and a complete, working C60 tach cluster. No repinning was required.....I just plugged in my existing instrument cluster plug-in and it all worked. Since you have electric gauges being an 80, you can use any C60 tach cluster from 77?78 and up. I'm not sure what year the big trucks went from mech. to electric oil pressure. Usually, 60 psi is electric, 80 psi is mechanical. Hope this helps more than confuses....lol.
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Old 12-11-2013, 10:43 PM   #36
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My C60 cluster was from an 85, and it had an electric 80 PSI gauge, which I later swapped in, since my 60psi gauge went kaput. works perfect.

Best way to do this swap is to use the big truck cluster housing, since the fuel gauge pins are lower, plus the cutout for the tach terminals.
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Old 12-12-2013, 12:24 PM   #37
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Re: Your best junkyard find

One of my best junkyard finds is a LT1 Camaro T56 6 speed I found at Pic-A-Part and paid $183 total. Sold on CL a week later for $1050.



73-80 GMC Tailgate trim.



Almost new Holley carb.



Tach Cluster



73-74 GMC/Chevrolet 454 Grille emblem




Nardi Steering wheel



Guess I should stop.. lol

OK One more. Dual Air Pressure gauge sold to a forum member.

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Old 12-12-2013, 12:28 PM   #38
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73-74 only Chevrolet grilles including a 454

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Old 12-13-2013, 02:49 AM   #39
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150? these trucks are made to hardly do half that lol. unless thats kph
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Old 12-13-2013, 10:42 AM   #40
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150? these trucks are made to hardly do half that lol. unless thats kph
I wondered that but the temp gauge is in Fahrenheit...unless they all were. I would assume those would be Celsius.
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Old 12-13-2013, 10:45 AM   #41
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They are 70's Camaro gauges (tach/speedo). I dig the look of them.
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Old 12-13-2013, 03:38 PM   #42
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In particular its a 70-73 Z28 cluster since the 150-mph Speedo and RPM redline is 7K. Big block equipped rare 396 70-73's also got the 7K tach. All others got a 6K redline and a 130 mph Speedo. So, its a pretty scarce cluster in its own right.
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Old 12-20-2013, 09:39 PM   #43
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Scored LH and RH Bumper Guards for $20.00 at local yard. LMC wants $149.95 for just the LH. Guess the RH is discontinued. They will work on mine with slight modification to the attach bolt's. The contour is right on just needs a large washer in back so the nuts wont suck through.
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Old 12-22-2013, 12:32 AM   #44
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Installed my bumper guards today. What do you think ??
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Old 12-22-2013, 01:35 AM   #45
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Got these suckers the other day
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Old 12-22-2013, 07:41 PM   #46
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Got these suckers the other day
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Old 12-22-2013, 08:17 PM   #47
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Installed my bumper guards today. What do you think ??
Looks good!
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Old 09-06-2018, 06:54 PM   #48
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Resurrecting a thread that’s older than dirt. But not nearly as old as these junkyard finds! Saw these two in a local yard yesterday.
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I go quite often to the junkyards. This was probably one of my best finds. I went to pick up a seat from a local yard. They drove me out to the truck, to let me see it to make sure I wanted it, before they pulled it. So while I was standing there waiting for the guy to get the seat pulled, I look in the bed of the truck, and all these were just laying there in the bed of the truck.
And here's the seat. It had been recovered in Black Leather, it was just dirty. I took the cover off and sandblasted the frame & repainted it, like I do all my seat rebuilds. Put the cover back on and I got myself a beautiful seat.
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Old 09-07-2018, 01:23 AM   #50
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Just a random junkyard pickin pic from a couple years ago...
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