trip to WILDCAT WRECKING

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

Very Cool, Mental Man, but I think that all those big "transmission coolers" 
that you saw were air conditioning components. 

Paul

In a message dated 11/4/2003 12:05:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, "mENTAL mAN" 
<collyman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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>Hello All,
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>Thanks for all of your help re. my vacuum brake release on my '77 NYB !!!
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>I just wanted to relate a short story from my Saturday road trip to Wildcat 
>Mountain Mopars Wrecking Yard.
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>It was a crisp 30 degrees Saturday morning but bright sunshine and clear 
>skies, NICE for a November day in Oregon, I drove my '77 NYB to the yard, as 
>it was only about 25 miles from my house. To get there you drive miles out a 
>windy rural forested road, until you start wondering if you're actually on a 
>two lane road to Montana. Then all of a sudden, a small sign on a BIGG Douglas 
>Fir tree says WILDCAT WRECKING. I slammed on the brakes amd made a three point 
>turn, then up the gravel drive past a variety of Chrysler products ( including 
>a '56 NY Deluxe in what looks like original faded BLUEBERRY paint) to the BIGG 
>metal pole building that is their front office, Parked alongside my yellow NYB 
>was a HOTT lime green '60's Road Runner, and on the other side a baby blue '65 
>NY with the clear tail lights and glass over the headlights just like an 
>Imperial. Well, the guys I met there were as helpful as can be and happy to 
>talk Mopar and Imperials until the cows came home.
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>They let me wander around the yard and check out whatever I wanted. I guess my 
>wife is right when she calls me mENTALmAN, because I couldn't help but think 
>that I should have opened my own wrecking yard years ago instead of being 
>stuck downtown working in a highrise office building pushing papers........ I 
>felt right AT HOME there at Wildcat..... Anyways, I roamed amongst the 
>Imperials, looking at the various years, trying to pick a year of car that I'd 
>like to buy one of and restore......and speaking of TRANSMISSION COOLERS, I 
>saw a couple of those single row ones that are about the same size as a 
>radiator and mount right in front of the radiator......they probably had about 
>20 or 25 Imperials there, most were from '57 to '71, and I even saw a front 
>clip that had shadows of little crowns on it, right above the headlights. I 
>was sorry to see that they didn't have much in the way of '55 or '56, as that 
>was my main intention for going out there, but the guys there couldn't have 
>been nicer or any more accomodating. I'm going to tak e my wife out there this 
>Saturday and show her a couple of cars that caught my eye, a silver '75 two 
>door Imp(engine seized) and a '56 NewYorker WAGON that kept whispering "save 
>me, save me, buy me"........
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>oh well, I'm a sucker for that kind of CRAZZEEEE CAR STUFF.
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>take care everyone, happy motoring.......
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>Michael Howlett
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>(not so)Boring, Oregon
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>Mopars and more...........
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