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Alright, I had to set the mood for this backwoods, hackin through the jungle...I know it was daylight when we went into these woods chapter 36 of
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
It all started pretty early and a little different this time.
FOTO, Sit, Stay!
Had talked with the older nice gentleman and he wanted to meet at local Lowes and drive me there....
(Bells and whistles going off, Dominos pizza delivery, stick em up!)
So I call him back later last night and let him know of the concerns ABB had for my safety. (I think ABB was worried about him too knowing I pack)
I told him I needed an address of where I would be so I can give it to the wife and explained the wierd times we live in now. He understood and gave me the address.
After hanging up, I went straight to mapquest. The name of the road was very familar to me and that area is very built up now with subdivisions and shopping malls. Well lets just sauy this farm was there long before any of that new BS was ever built. We get off the highway and make a few turns in very busy traffic. Then all of a sudden he hits the brakes and makes a sudden left into what I thought was just bushes and thickets along an inside blind curve!
"OH sorry about that, if you don't hit the drive when you can you'll get hit!"
Well thanks, wiplash is always better than me being in the front row of a T-bone!!!
We make a drop off the pavement into a "tree cave" and stop at a rustic farm gate. He explains he's getting the gate and I can wait here.
All I see beyond the gate is gravel path making a gentle right where sunlight was somewhere beyond the "Tree tunnel" we were in.
He gets the gate and comes back, we go on...
The sunlight was comming from a 1/4 acre flat area along a creek with a huge pile of timbers on the left. "Oh that's the old bridge"
"Well I hope you put in a new one!"
"We did here it is"
We go across a brand new galvanized steel and cement bridge that looks like it should be on a state highway! WOW nice bridge!
Then up a long winding up hill grade that was inside another tree tunnel.
We start crowning and I can see the start of a roofline on a century old 2 story farm house. We stop and park at the "T" in the tree tunnel and on the left it opens up to a small sunny area around the house. In front of us is the 1st car, chebby 53.
To the right continues the long curv of additional driveway.
He honks the horn to let his brother know someones here.
We talk, then I meet his brother. Their farm has been in their family sense before the 40's.
We all hit it off right off the bat. I'm not sure they get too many visitors. They almost fight each other trying to talk at the same time to me! LOL!
Anyway, he was right, just a bunch of junk!
Nothing ever easy for me.
Got some pics. They are wanting me to "fix" the barn so I can get a caddy out that was in the fire. Roof caved in on caddy, burned and rusted.
The jungle is so thick where the cars are, that it blocks out the sun like your in a rain forest, with briars!!! LOL
Stayed a while shootin the chite.
Then we left.
He talked story after story on the way home. Then for 50 mins at my car where he was dropping me off!
New friends!
Well, he's getting back with me next week. By then I'll have figured out how much a roll back will charge me for 6 trips to his place back to my place and give him pricing.
Only worry is, might not be enough parts to part off and sell sense they have all but been stolen off the cars already. All I hope is for good interior Inst panels etc.
The cars are not going to weigh as much as he thinks they are due to rust. Also he has very deep emotional attachments to the cars. Also all the while telling me he don't need the money either. (He don't. He has about 250 acre farm out here in Indiana, 9 tracktors, one of the biggest barns in the state before it burned from lightning.
Makes me wonder why he finally decided to sell the cars? They sure weren't bothering anyone where they were!
I'm really going to have to be careful. I'm going to have to price as scrap and the weight isn't there. The good parts aren't there anymore either!!
He even stopped by later in the day at my house to pick up a business card and chew the fat some more! New friends!
I offered if he needed help at his place to call me if he couldn't get ahold of anyone else. He said Thanks, cause the last time in the field he fell next to the tractor and called 911 for the sheriff to help him up!
Well he can call me next time and I'll go out there and help him up, he's ok.
Glad he wasn't some crazy that was going to burry be alive in some room in the ground!!
We had alot in common we found out. We both had been printers and truck drivers. We both served in the military. So, it was a pretty cool day. I'm not really looking foward to next week though when I have to price his rust piles.
Well, that's another
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
for the history books. I'll keep ya posted later on revisits to the farm for the cars.
Tune in next time for the next rust soaked chapter of
CAR HUNT! FABOZENE:cool:
Pics to follow;
