It's nice to get your faith in humanity refreshed once in a while.
I recently received an email from one of the guys over at the yenko.net site where I have the companion version of this thread posted. He was cleaning out his garage and asked me if I wanted the leftover box of parts he had found in the garage from the 72 T/A he sold quite a while back. He said most of the stuff was leftover junk. I replied that I'd take whatever he had. I asked him what he wanted and he said just pay the shipping and you can have it all!
What an amazing guy, to say the least!
You can imagine my astonishment when two large boxes arrived and all this stuff was in it. It was like Christmas in April! A lot of the misc parts were things I had been searching for, unsuccessfully, for years.
Here's some of the stuff:
The original, correct zinc chromate colored, cowl weatherstrip clips (next to the not-so-accurate repro clip)
The correct A/C compressor rear bolt spacer:
Original 455HO valve cover bolts (yes, they had their own bolts as they were longer than the regular Pontiac bolts due to the fact that the 455HO used a much thicker valve cover gasket to allow the valve covers to clear the rocker oiling guides.) There was also a bag of all the original front sheetmetal bolts and cage nuts.
An original set of rear bumper guards - very rare item:
An original 455HO A/C compressor rear bracket (yeah, they had their own unique part designed with a cut out to clear the shaker hot air stove pipes.)
A really nice set of the assembly line, heavy gauge steel 1972 exhaust tips (after cleaning and chiseling off the remnants of the still attached exhaust pipes):
