If you've got old cameras and lenses sitting gathering dust, let me know. I've got eclectic tastes: what looks like old crap to you might look really good to me, so drop me a PM if you have something to unload.
My dad collects old junky cameras too, and I almost bought him a pair of lenses that looked like the were from the sixties, from Value Village. $7.99. The jerks plastered a big price tag on the original box, but I managed to peel it off slowly with no damage done to the box. But then I came across an old Kodak movie camera, and I had to get that instead. It's a good place to look! You never know. There's also a great old antique typewriter that I was dying to buy...