Do some people think their junk is worth the price of Gold? Check these ads and try to explain why one is worth 7.5 times more than what the other is. The used ones to boot. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-72-ch...ete-set-20-1/323054903724?hash=item4b3792a1ac https://www.ebay.com/itm/GM-ACORN-L...CLE-CAR-RARE/112783888427?hash=item1a4271902b I am not looking to buy, I have the complete Stainless set from CARS in NJ. This is just an observation.
Just to play the Devil's advocate, the first auction lists a set of aftermarket "open" lugs that you would normally find under a hub cap. These have the bulge type seat as well. Can be found in any auto parts store. $20 is probably the average price. The other auction lists a set of original GM stainless capped lugs for use with a GM rallye wheel of the era. Specifically Pontiac. Almost positive Ames lists the same type as reproductions for less than $3 each. So your talking $50 for a set of new repros. Does the seller know that? Maybe not. Maybe he thinks GM originals are worth three times more than the Chinesium repro. Who know what his mindset is. Eventually, Im sure he'll figure it out As an aside, those lug nuts tend to push through a Pontiac rallye wheel. The seat is so thin on the lug, combined with the thin seat on the Poncho wheel, the lugs tighten right past the steel wheel.
I was admiring the poorly seated impact wrench marks as well. Not quite as bad as the steel nuts with outer chrome/SS shells, but they sure aint cherry! ws
the repop stainless capped, are no where near correct..a little research shows the diff... the assy line where superseded almost instantly after production with an improved design, so to find pre-replacement, is pretty tuff...
X2 what Mark said, the really big issue with these nuts is the ANGLE where it seats against the wheel. At some point GM changed that angle, so the newer "NOS" nuts have the problem that Jason talks about. Olds guys are really more aware of this. A set of original pre-angle change NOS GM lugs bring huge $, like 10.00-20.00 PER NUT for a set of 20.00!
Ebay can be just nuts sometimes. I have seen common items sell for 10x normal going price, just depends on timing, how its listed, etc. I remember 4-5 years ago a guy listed a pair of 63 Buick Skylark trim pieces (used not NOS) that we call "hockey sticks" with a "buy it now" price of $250! I looked at them and they were not show quality parts at all. The listing was on Ebay for months (like a year or more). I kept seeing it every now and then and just shook my head, thinking the seller was nuts. Then one day I was checking the sold listings and there it was! It actually SOLD for the $250, I was shocked to say the least! Keith
I've watched the eBay phenomenon for almost 20 years and like others here, marvel at what some things sell for. But I have to remember pre-online auction days, when I would marvel at what things sold for at live auctions when there was a bidding frenzy. I prefer to use eBay as a virtual yard sale...so much easier than driving all over...
The whole world is your marketplace on ebay. I sold a full set of the second stainless capped acorns, NOS in GM pkges., for close to $150 a couple years ago. Sold an AC chicken wire, square pattern NOS in box air cleaner element (probably a $5 part years ago), for around $200. The concourse guys that have $100k plus cars (queens) buy that stuff. There's an azz for every seat!
Pretty sure none of those are real acorn lugs as far as a Buick guy is concerned. I did not think the capped ones used that term. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-OE...ash=item4415eaea81:g:RHUAAOSw~rpZRDuy&vxp=mtr Perhaps there are different types of acorn?
I restored a 70 - 71 GS air cleaner back in 2006. It came out super nice and I included some repro stickers from @Skyhawk I had bought a year earlier. Long story short, it grabbed over $700 and the buyer was happier than I expected when he got it.
Back in 2000, after I had purchased my '72 GS, the car had a set of Firebird snowflake(?) wheels from about a '77 bird. I needed the correct lug nuts to hold the wheels on. I had the original rallyes but they required a lot of work to be presentable which i undertook a couple of years later. Cost $120 from thepartsplace. I could not find a used set. Previous owner had fashioned a set of homemade nuts that barely secured the rims to hub.
I once had a couple of ‘79 T/As with those wheels, and the nuts with the flat shoulders were oddballs. (Balls? Nuts?) I scrounged thrm up from junkyards every tine I went, trying to find nice ones and keeping spares. Patrick
Hmm... looked on ebay today for the first time in months. There was literally nothing for mybriv. All generic nuts, bolts and trim screws. Did see this POS scrsp front bumper for $675! Ante up boys!!!
This is a freakin' rip all the way. Available at Napa for less than $3.00. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wheel-Lug-...2674403631?epid=173939967&hash=item1c8ff6d92f
