Flea Market Steals (Both Literally and Non-Literally) *Edited*

"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes) 09/23/2018 at 13:36 • Filed to: None

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Bought these at the Avenel Flea Market today in Avenel, NJ. Got them both for $7. One of them is for a 1M, the other is for the 6-series

In related news, I was accused of stealing at the market. This one Asian guy from a stand I went to earlier (where he was just staring at me while I was looking at weird phone cases) reaches in my pocket and pulls out a pair of those weird fake AirPods I found on the floor near a garbage can, and accuses me of stealing them from his booth. I explain the situation to him and point out the fact that I wouldn’t need to steal them, because I was wearing Beats Studio 2 Wirelesses and had real AirPods in my other pocket. He threatens to call the police (right, the man selling counterfeit goods wants to call the cops on an honor student at a flea market.) I tell him to call them and leave, because I had a day planned with my grandma today and couldn’t deal with this nonsense)

You know what, call me crazy, but me thinks this wouldn’t have happened if my skin was more fair

Edit, other finds:

2007 White MacBook: Found in a trash can at the flee market, had RAM issue which I replaced with two sticks I had laying around, already sold it to a family member for $150

Heavily worn Toddlers’ Jordan 12 for $2 . For those w ho don’t know, I restore shoes and sell them on eBay, and after these are restored, I have an easy $70 profit

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/22/2018 at 19:49

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Very nice! I collect random car brochures where and when I see them....have quite a random collection at this point! :)

Chuckles > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/22/2018 at 19:59

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Earbuds are like underwear. If you find a pair on the ground near a trash can, just leave them there and walk away. 

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > Chuckles 09/22/2018 at 20:16

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You know what, maybe you’re right

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/22/2018 at 20:16

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Pics?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/22/2018 at 20:20

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I don’t have them handy atm to easily take pics, but I’ll see what I can dig up tomorrow! I’m mostly a Euro and Japanese car guy by far, but oddly enough most of my brochures are domestic brands and are for 70s/80s/90s domestic manufacturer models...Ford, GM, Chevy, Chrysler, etc . They’re almost all Canadian- market brochures. :)

This one is probably my Holy Grail!

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/passport-brochure-1828791891

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/23/2018 at 00:34

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Nice finds! Bummer on being profiled, but good on you for calmly calling the bluff.

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/23/2018 at 02:47

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In addition to these things, I also found a 2007 White MacBook inside the trash with a RAM problem (I fixed it) and some 2003 Jordan 12’s for $2

promoted by the color red > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/23/2018 at 13:46

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Wow, A+ side hustle!

Sucks you had to go through that BS though. 

MM54 > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/23/2018 at 13:54

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I have spent some time in Avenel for work. The guy threatening to call the cops and accusing you, random passer-by, of stealing fits in pretty well.

I do like that 1M poster, very cool!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/23/2018 at 17:34

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A small sample!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/23/2018 at 18:19

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I have a 2002 white PowerPC iBook sitting in my living room that I wiped and set back up. It works but has some sort of graphics issue (the colors are all sortof inverted...apparently not an uncommon problem for them from my research?)

Pretty useless these days, but I have it up on Kijiji for $20 if somebody will ever buy it...it was free to me, so even if I get $20 out of it, it’s $20 profit.

I have a perfectly working, PowerPC iMac downstairs as well that I also got for free...again, useless these days, and the colored casing is a little rough, but hey, if an Apple enthusiast or somebody wants it for $30, it’s still $30 profit to me!

Otherwise, I have a Vista-era Toshiba laptop with a 2.something Ghz Pentium dual-core that I fixed up that now has 4GB RAM and Windows 10 that I’ll put up soon to get some money out of it (can maybe get $100 out of it?). It would be fine for pretty much anybody to do the sual basic stuff....email, web surfing, Netflix...

I’ve got another cosmetically quite rough up Acer waiting in the wings as well....it works fine though, but I need to find a Windows 7 license key for that one to activate Windows 10 on it, still need to wait for it’s replacement keyboard to arrive (the current one only has half the keys working) and figure out why the touchpad is detected in Device Manager, but isn’t working...

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/28/2018 at 23:03

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By colored iMac, do you mean this thing:

Those things are really cool.

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/28/2018 at 23:04

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I really like that fiero one. Is it bad to like fiero’s? If it’s wrong then I don’t want to be right

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/29/2018 at 07:07

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I do! They look pretty neat, but would probably be before your time. 600mhz PowerPC processor, so useless for any modern stuff really. This one is the ‘Graphite’ color (probably the least interesting color choice) and comes with the original matching keyboard. I don’t have the matching round mouse though...

It’s one of these:

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac_600_graphite.html

:)

My Jr. High used them for everything when I was that age back in 1998-2001. I feel old now. :P

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/29/2018 at 07:10

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I’m not a big fan of GM at all, but I do like the Fiero because they at least tried to make something unique and different. That brochure is for the Fiero GT model as well, which was a later one and more rare!

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/29/2018 at 22:29

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“Before my time”

Hahahaha. No.

I do things with PowerPC’s all the time, of course it usually involves making them gaming Macintoshes

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/29/2018 at 22:38

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You mean classic games or emulators?

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/30/2018 at 11:38

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Whatever, really. The last one I built was a PowerMac G5 that could run COD and Fortnite with 60 FPS. But there is this great emulator called OpenEMU  that I preload with Roms onto each one I’ve built.

I found the G5 at someone’s garbage, built it, and sold it to a local friend of mine who is an apple snob but wanted a gaming tower for $300. It had a GTX750 and 12 GB of ram

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 09/30/2018 at 12:08

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I’m legitimately confused...the last Powermac G5 was from 2005, quad-core. A comparable quad core Intel or AMD processor from the time nowadays with Win10 could do lighter gaming, but nothing super in-depth - 60fps is really impressive for tech. that old, though the video card would help a lot, of course.

What I’m more confused by though, is AFAIK, Fortnite has no PowerPC architecture variant that I know of as PowerPC long dead (none mentioned on their site that I can find)? Only Linux, Windows and MacOSX (Intel/AMD) and then mobile versions on Android (ARM) and iOS...? Is there something I don’t know?

I’ve used OpenEMU before, cool emulator.

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/01/2018 at 18:52

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A common thing that people do is put the internals of a PC into the PowerPC cases, due to their sleekness (ie. G5)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop 10/01/2018 at 19:43

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Ah, gotcha....thought you meant actually putting a gaming machine together using PowerPC hardware, haha!

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/01/2018 at 21:13

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That’s nearly impossible unless you have the technology manipulation skills of millennial  god