[CR]Dumpster finds

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: "Greg S" <gtsoftley@ozemail.com.au>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:54:50 +1100
Subject: [CR]Dumpster finds

Some great finds out there but hey guys - get yourself organised! I have an 'arrangement' with a couple of folk who earn their living picking up scrap metal and items of 'interest' from roadside council clean - ups. This is where several times a year local councils will send a truck around the streets to pick up bulky goods that have been put on the footpath (sidewalk) for collection. Depending on the suburb, you can sometimes furnish a house just by picking through the offerings on one block. Get on the right side of these salvage artists, induct them with a series of names and brands and pay them cash....straight up..... for their finds and you would be surprised to see what turns up. Last week I scored a nice early Carlton and a Windsor for $120US for both all up. I live halfway between two state capitals and have folk in each city looking out for me. One guy who is great - he has radar eyes - has an interest in another arena of cycling and I was able to steer him onto a deal where he is able to fill a 40 foot container with bike stuff from an old bike shop clean-out up in the mountains. Total cost to him - only his time and container hire. I'm sincerely glad for him. Of course being a deal maker, I have claim to any decent road gear that I wasnt able to unearth when I hunted that shop down myself. In the new world market economy this is a perfect example of
outsourcing.
Greg Softley
Coffs Harbour
Australia