Just moved to Humboldt County California

Ah yes, one of those trips. I once went on one of those trips, "The Trip From Hel _" I had been dealing with this guy in Chicago on a 67 RT Hemi Car. Had pictures, talked to the guy on the phone a number of times and all sounded good, OK so, I didn't have a truck, borrowed my buddies F250 Diesel, 4th of july weekend, left Colorado with the wife, left the littleones with a good friend, part way there the truck starts slowing down real bad and I look in the mirror to see a ton of smoke behind me, as it ended up my trailer had wire mesh for the floor and my buddy had used it and had cut out a section of it for what reason I don't remember, but the spare tire had fallen thru this holetire facing forward and just burning the rubber off. Got that handled, further down the road we were on a highway with construction so they had East & West bound traffic down to 1 lane each way all on one side of the highway, my lovely tieing down came back to me again as a loading ramp off the trailer flew off, Thank Goodness it didn't hit anyone though it ruined the ramp. Finally we got to Chicago, located the car. Yikes, lots of rust, transmission/torsion bar crossmember, and a subframe all in bad shape along with the torque boxes, I'm like Jeckle & Hyde by this time, almost in tears and on the other hand want to kill this guy who misrepresented this car!!! I had too much of a deposit on it so I loaded it up after getting a ramp from him. Headed out back to Colorado, before I jump on the highway I decide to get out and check the trailer/car and everything out, jump under the truck and notice the trailer hitch was falling off the truck, located a parts store and changed out all the mounting bolts. Somewhere along the way we were driving along and I look down to see the temp. gauge is really getting up there, Had to let it cool down and ended up pulling out the thermostat that had stuck closed for some reason, we were then getting ready to stop for the night and recieved a call from the friend watching the kids, the kids were very upset and her friend was having no luck in claming them so we drove thru the night to get home. All that to buy a rusted out car! As life turned out a few years after that trip we ended up divorcing, never got the car rebuilt and sold it along with a 66 Charger parts car for a loss. Saw the car about 8 years ago, The guy here in Colorado that was hired to rebuild it had done a professional job with it, can't tell you though how much of it was the origional cor & how much of it was the 66 Charger parts car, but it looked great. A "White Hat Special" as it was called by Dodge. Blue exterior with white vinyl top and white interior. Live and learn.