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[Vairtec Corporation]

Matt Nall wrote:

>   That's what ebay is for...  one part at a time!
>   

Matt, in the past six months to a year I perceive a dramatic increase in 
the number of Corvair parts on eBay at any given moment, AND a dramatic 
decrease in the number selling or selling for a price worth the effort 
of photographing, listing, packing, and shipping.

Like virtually all of us here, I too have a barn full of parts, some of 
which I can remember pulling from the vehicle in 1976!  Many if not most 
of them were parts that, at the time, I thought I might have a use for 
someday.  Many if not most of them are not rare nor uncommon.  And yet, 
I can't bring myself to simply toss them into the metal recycling 
dumpster.  I'd like to put them in the hands of someone who might be 
able to use them.  But here again, the total cost of putting them on 
eBay exceeds the likely return.  FC door hardware?  Cylinder baffles?  
Hardly the stuff of dreams.

The past 15 years of eBay, and the past two years of Craiglist, have 
made it so that I have fewer parts than before, but I still have waaay 
too many.

And it is a disease.  I still acquire parts that for some reason I think 
I "need."

What hasn't been discussed yet is the "spouse effect."  My wife, and a 
friend's wife, have an agreement that, should I or my friend die, they 
are going to call the other to come get the parts, THEN call the undertaker.

--Bob Marlow