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Topic: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

My neighbor had a garage/moving/estate sale over the past 2 weeks and I made out like a bandit. Besides the 2 free Brooks saddles I got and the set of vintage red Inter-am Husqvarna MX handlebars, I also score these 2 car related things.

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1972's Dealers Choice from Parker Brothers: Now you too can have the fun of cheating little old ladies out of their SS checks by selling them wore out pieces of crap. Coming soon to a paddock after hours drunken gaming night near you (if you live in southern California)

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This is someone's old high school binder, circa 1970. The inside is even better.

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This will become the binder that all our car documentation goes into, and if we get fast enough it will just be given away as a bride.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

i used to hit up estate sales and yard sales every weekend, got way too many lil toys and crap from them. that binder is fucking sweet, makes me wanna go junk hunting again.

Uhm, hmm. know what, i'm leaving that there.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

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I played a lot of Dealer's Choice as a kid. Actually a very fun game.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

8 grand for that clunker?  Crack Pipe!

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

mechimike wrote:

8 grand for that clunker?  Crack Pipe!

Remember that the game came out in 1972, so that's practically a brand new car.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

Dealers choice, I do love old board games, I'll have to look around for one.  Now that the Lemons Community knows such a fine game exists it may make its way to all drunk paddocks.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

They also had one called King Oil, which was like a cross between Battle Ship & Monopoly. The object was to build oil wells on the grid and look for oil, which was randomly placed by rotating 3 different wheels under the game. It got thrown away before I could snag it at the end of the day.

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Re: Awesome Yard Sale Scores!

I played it as a kid and may even have very recently shipped it off to the Salvation Army as part of the cleanup of my parents house.  I remember the 20's Mercedes, Indy car and e-type Jag.  Don't recall ever getting the vette.  As part of the cleanup I did come across a working version 1 Atari system.  10 or so games too.  Pong  (with curveball option!) and Tank.

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