big m
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This journey has been going on some time, as I generally work 60 hour weeks or better, and only have time at nights and sometimes weekends for personal projects.
I was storing a number of cars for a good friend, we called 'Dammit Jim' here, and he owed me roughly $800 or doing so. His business was 'bird-dogging' early Ford power steering units from old wrecking yards, and then re-machining them for sale.
He had stumbled upon a closed salvage yard in upstate New York, where he bought seven '49-'51 Ford woody wagons, as well as a '49 and '51 Mercury convertible. He called me after removing his purchases, and told me about a '59 Fury back in the woods there, and he sent me some photos. Looked like most of the convertible top specific parts were intact, so I gave him the go ahead to buy the car and load it on a trailer for me. The yard owner told him the car had been there since roughly '65, and doubted it would be easy to remove, but Dammit Jim's knowledge of loading cars allowed it to be done without the car breaking apart.
A friend then picked the trailer up, and we unloaded the car here with help from a forklift.
This is what the car looked like when we unloaded it into the barn.
I was storing a number of cars for a good friend, we called 'Dammit Jim' here, and he owed me roughly $800 or doing so. His business was 'bird-dogging' early Ford power steering units from old wrecking yards, and then re-machining them for sale.
He had stumbled upon a closed salvage yard in upstate New York, where he bought seven '49-'51 Ford woody wagons, as well as a '49 and '51 Mercury convertible. He called me after removing his purchases, and told me about a '59 Fury back in the woods there, and he sent me some photos. Looked like most of the convertible top specific parts were intact, so I gave him the go ahead to buy the car and load it on a trailer for me. The yard owner told him the car had been there since roughly '65, and doubted it would be easy to remove, but Dammit Jim's knowledge of loading cars allowed it to be done without the car breaking apart.
A friend then picked the trailer up, and we unloaded the car here with help from a forklift.
This is what the car looked like when we unloaded it into the barn.