Flea market find .

[1937 LaSalle coupe]

Hello everyone. Went to the Tiffin, Ohio flea market Saturday. A guy had a case of red taillights that were all cleaned up. No prices on anything. I told I would like to see a particular one. Nice and no chips. The guy asked me if I had been looking for that one for a long time ?  Had to say yes. I asked him how much he wanted and paid his price. He was happy and so was I. That was the best $5.00 I had ever spent. Yes that was five dollars... For a 1937 Cadillac... Once in a life time deal... John C. Lehman... CLC # 26365... Anyone else have good flea market finds

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

John, To make you even happier, we just got home from the Fall Festival at our museum, and they had seven LaSalles displayed, including a nice (trailered) 1937 Sedan. Very nice show, had lots of pretty cars. The (original) bright blue 1934 LaSalle showed up again. We had cars from GA, FL, and all points in between. It was great to see old friends and make some new ones.

[Tom Boehm]

My best swap meet find was at the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville. This was about 10 years ago. I bought a pair of NOS windshield wiper transmissions for my 1940 Lasalle. I think I paid $60 for the pair. That was an amazing find among what seemed like acres of rusty flathead Ford sheetmetal.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Bob, our Regional Director, Warner Young has a 1940 5219 sedan. Keep an eye on our Indiana CLC website for activities that might match up with a visit. We will be winding down 2017 events, but we will have a planning meeting for 2018 usually in January or February. Thanks for the kind words.

[Steve Passmore]

. Once in a life time deal... John C. Lehman... CLC # 26365... Anyone else have good flea market finds

Best find I ever made was at a car show here in the UK some 35 years ago. My fuel gauge had never worked in the 1937 I was driving, and spread out on the floor with lot's of English parts was a NOS tank sending unit for 1937/38 GM cars!  It had nothing on the box and the stallholder knew nothing about it but I recognized it instantly because I had mine apart so many times.
How that ended up in a small village in Gloucestershire I will never know, and the price tag?  £2. ($3)

[Quentin Hall]

When I was towing my unrestored 59 Biarritz from Winnipeg to LA way back in 96, I drove past a Sunday fleemarket. Something glinted in the morning sun and I said to Don who was the previous owner, who was doing the trip with me, that there could be something good there. He laughed at me like I was insane.
    We walked in the gate and I went to the table and there was a 59 Eldo hubcap and a mint pair of 59 rear window switches and ashtrays. Paid $20 for the hubcap and $10 for the pair of ashtrays. ( The ashtrays were on my top of the wanted list as the ones in the car has been badly corroded by a roof leak.)
      Don shook his head in disbelief and never questioned me wanting to stop indiscriminately again.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

This is not a Cadillac find, but our local car club was having breakfast at an out of the way antique place that also served (breakfast.)
I was finished and drinking my coffee when I saw up high on a shelf, a grouping of commercial pie pans. Somehow I knew I needed to check them out, so I called the owner over, and sure enough, in the handful of stacked pans was one embossed with "Blue Bird Pies" where my mom was employed for many years. It now resides up on OUR shelf of antiques in our dining room.

Quentin, sometimes, you just KNOW...