CAR HUNT! or BOF & me car shopping!

Hey FABO!

Here we go on another quick trip of

CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:glasses2:


Mood music, Hit it!

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Nothing special, just the normal back country junk grind!
Snowing pretty good here today but not sticking though.
Chapter 29 kinda happened on the 25th unexpectedly. Astro Van ended up being driven to my house for delivery! Don't get them kind too often!
The drivers window don't work, sliding door held almost shut with 5 bungie cords, back doors wont open, no blower for heat, etc.... But new tires, brakes, battery. Older lady called and wanted $700.00 for it. I told her I would give $300.00 for it without even looking at it. I sugested Cl but she had no computer. Then I told her to put an ad in the local paper to sell for that much. She said no, she wanted me to come to look at it to see if I could give her more than that for it. Sense she live about 4 blocks from my house, I went down to take a look at it. Expecting total Junk, when I got there I walked up to her and asked where the Astro she was selling was at. (She was standing next to it but I thought this one was her new van and she was selling her old one)
She laughed at me and said this IS the van she is selling! I said that aint no $300.00 van and I would be embarassed to offer the $400.00 I was planning on. "what's the least you'll go on cash today for it?"
Let's just say, I didn't pay 400 or 700 but somewhere in the middle!
She didn't have title with her but would drive it over to my house later so I could teat drive and I told her if it drove out ok, the deal was on. She came buy later, I jumped in and didn't even make it down the street. I already knew I was buying it.
Anyway, Here's Rosie! That was chapter 29 of

CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:glasses2:

Chapter 30, we'll take Rosie after working on her for 4 straight days and still working her.
Anyway FABO, are you ready to go on another backwoods, hill hick, ridge runnin', hollar investigating, cattle path stompin, Southeastern Indiana treckin, edition of

CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:glasses2:

Well buckel up and here we GO!!!!!

Heading out in the Astro due to not being too sure what we are getting into today. Never know what to expext especially with a multi car location in the sticks. I'm finding it cheaper just to drive out in a smaller vehicle to check things out first before fireing up FOTO for the actual run. Diesel getting real expensive. So we will take Rosie the Atro from chapt. 29.

It's cold and snowing today. We head out. pretty uneventfull. Took back the steam cleaner to Kroger. Cleaned the inside of the Astro, walls, floors, seats, then did the carpet in ABB's Swinger. Dropped off the cleaner, bought gas and we're off!!
Finally found the driveway, cable stretched over entry, long gravel drive along winding creek, finally arriving at the car stash.
The owner was a very nice fellow. He only wanted ME to come and buy his cars due to how nice and professional I was on the phone and he said i didn't sound like a normal junker. He said a couple years ago he had someone out who showed back up unexpectedly couple days later with 4 friends ttying to get one of his cars!!! He ran them off and I'm the first person he invited back!
Long story short, I will be pulling these out soon. Most are filled with steel scrap and more than a couple are quick fixes to get back on the road!
Didn't mention I would be bringing Yard Dawg, his truck and trailer for the bigger hauls. I didn't want him to think we were going to invade his property like the last junkers to come buy.
Good weeks worth of work but he will not be easy to work with.

Had to reassure him of my background but once I mentioned I used to work on B-52's in the USAF with Top secret security clearance and I was now a forced layoff 30 year vet printer with ran out unemployment, then I was OK! He was not calling anyone else to come out cause he trust me on his property now, but didn't want any scrappers out there!!

Cool!:cheers:

tried talking to him about his mustang but he wants $5000.00 for it!!!
It was every once of control I could muster not to LOL at him about the price. I explained in the past 6 months we had sold 3 of our Running and Driving, show winning classics for around $2500.00 each and had just purchased a mint survivor 74 Dart with only 37K miles for around the price he wants for the mustang. He said he didn't need the money and that's what it would take to get it. I told him good luck on that one, but I could help him get it running so he could drive it again. If he leaves it set much longer it won't be worth spit. They have a tendabcy to rott away sitting, sinking in the wet Hossier soil around here.

Well that about wraps it up for Chapter 30 of

CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:glasses2:

Not real exciting this time, but wanted to take you guys along. We got to test the new camera today but sorry I forgot the video cam today. Never know, we might have found a cashe of Darts in a barn!!

Tune in next time for an exciting (or not so) Chapter 31 of
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:glasses2: