I'm a scavenger

[Tom]

I don't know why I keep getting interested in stuff like this.  I'm just a scavenger at heart.  Look at this slightly used auto I found in the field next to the Air Port.  DanG, I want it.   I know good and well that my wife would make my life miserable if i drug something else like this home.  It's not like I don't arlready have a yard full of treasures.   It's probably a good thing that I couldn't figure out how to get it on the truck, eh?

[pigman]

Tom,
  Why put it on the truck, just put some tires on it and drive it home. :
There is nothing wrong with that car that  a  little body filler and a quart of paint won't fix. ;)
Bob

[sawdust]

Have to share my best scavenger story. I like big box shopping. Dumpsters! Out at the lake where people with too much money live, each summer the summer village puts out a couple huge dumpsters. When these folks get a new toy the old one gets tossed. My wife and I have not ever had a TV (by choice), now we do. A beautiful two year old 32" RCA picture in picture. (We  only have it hooked up to a vcr player, I'm not willing to watch thecrap that is broadcast. ) I went diving back in to get the remote, never did find it.

8)

[redpowerd]

slightly used :D

massena, ny, everyone brings ANYTHING to the curb once a year, and after a week or so, the city disposes of it

let me know if your interested and ill pick you up with my flatbed.:D

[Brad_S.]

This is one of the reasons my shop is 15 miles from home. I can make a big mess and she doesn't care and if I come home with any treasures, new or slightly used like yours, she never knows. :D

Maybe that's why I can put in my tag line that she's "usually patient".

[tnlogger]

 :D :D :D looks to me like  it would make a good ad project for our sponsor
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[rebocardo]

You know, it looks like an old Ford and I bet the rear axle is worth something. I would see if I could get a bill of sale and haul it off because "it reminds me of my ole' sweet grand pa"! Then I would fix it for a hotrod or sell the axle on E-Bay. A complete body with doors and a rear axle, that thing is looking at a fixing!

[Kirk_Allen]

I'll give you a hand loading it on the 16th when Im down there Tom.  I couldnt let that thing sit in the dirt.  It would HAVE to come home with me.

My wife would probably shoot me as well but I would be more than happy to help you load it ;D

[redpowerd]

grab me them cee-ment culverts

[Tom]

I found out that J.J. restores model T's.   He hs 3 in the works now.  I asked him what he is going to do with this one and he said that it is being parted out to fix some others. He will probably use the body for a "Rod".

There is another one in the background of the picture.


Oh!   J.J. is the fellow in the cowboy lhat.

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Izzat Pee-can???  Been a long time since I seen any, and can't remember.???

[Tom]

Zat's hikrey :D

[etat]

grab me them cee-ment culverts

:D :D :D 8) 8) 8)

[Tom]

Cement culverts?    I could carry three on my truck if I could get them up there. ;D

I could always tell the wife that they are strawberry pots. :D

[redpowerd]

if you look closley, theyre round.
just lay a pair of two-ba-fers on yer tailgate an push em up with that car. real simple.

[Murf]

Tom, it just sounds like you need to get a diff'rint kinda 'pick up' truck. I got me a nice blue one a couple years back, it's downright handy fer bringin' home all sorts'a treasures.



The trick is in not telling the missus exactly what you mean by "pick up" until after you own it.

Once it's home, ya' jus gots ta' put it to use on a reg'lar basis, otherwise it'll take to bein' stubborn when ya' needs it, an that'll never do.

[Tom]

That's a pretty good looking pick-up truck.  You can carry lots of treasures on that.

I took another trip around the yard today and found some more stuff parked here and there.  J.J. came and took me for a tour to show me where they end up.  this isn't all of them.  There are buildings on the property that I've not been in that he says are full of cars. :D

I found another old ford under a tree



......and a building with old cars all out front.   
Then J.J. showed up......


.....and I saw some inside of the building.



Back in a corner was a vette and I almost missed this one by the door.
The sign in the window reads "As Is  -- no warranty" :D

[Paul_H]

Thanks for the tour of JJ's collection, Tom.It would be a great way to spend the afternoon.