RE: moving a car with no rear axle
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RE: moving a car with no rear axle



I'm glad I don't live close to you, Neal, or I'd be right out with you 
and my come-along, mud and all, trying to save every last one of them! 
All the yards around central Ohio crushed their old iron a long time 
ago, so yard picking is out of the question here...unless you have an 85 
K-car!
Jeff
Robert neal zimmerman wrote:
> 
> 
> well, i didnt want to come out and say it, but its a Brand X   and I
> dont have any parts for chevies,  its a   1959 Chevy Brookwood
> stationwagon and the guy will sell it for  35 dollars,it doesnt have an
> engine  and one axle is missing. I just need to figure out how to get it
> out of there.
>   this guys story is SOOOOOOOOO  sad, hes got thirty years of  gearhead
>   accumulation at this  old farm out in the sticks, and he is moving, so
>   it all needs to go before the buyer will buy it, so  he needs to clear
>   everything out, clearly a case of  bad planning, too many gearhead
>   dreams, and procrastination, hes got dozens of old cars out there, and
>   hes so backwards, I dont even think he knows what Ebay is,,  so sadly
>   the whole lot will probably end up getting crushed, for pennies , > >
> > >  theres also the fact that in the 30 years hes lived there trees have 
> > >  grown up and cars that were once accesible arent anymore, and the 
> > >  weather has turned here now, so nobodies  gonna drive out in the sticks 
> > >  and  waste their  whole weekend trying to  yank an old car across a 
> > >  sheet of mud with a come-along, maybe except for a real nut- bag ( 
> > >  smile).
>      The guy must have been quite the gearhead in his day, hes even got
>      a barn out there with an oil change pit in it.
>   and hes mainly Mopar, but  more 50s, early 60s stuff,  not in to
>   muscle cars.
>   If I had a  large warehouse , I would buy it all from him, some stuff
>   is too far gone, other stuff is restorable. the 56 plymouth 2 door
>   wagon is definitely cool. He also has a  1965  383 fury two door ,
>   "100 bucks" he said.
>   i was out there  yesterday too, and  there was something kind of sad
>   to the  whole thing, the falling leaves and  cold fog didnt help  and
>   i felt  rather melancholic as I drive  down  his gravel road.
>    neal zimmerman, eugene oregon
> 
> -- 
> http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different?
> 



Jeff Adams
64 Polara


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