YELLAHEEP
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- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
Went to buy this cool '67 Squareback custom "truck" since I would be out in Nebraska near it for Thanksgiving. My cousin's boss built it 3 years earlier and sold it. $1500 engine, tons of new parts. Current owner fried the ignition a year ago, it sat for a year and wants it gone. Long story short...... it was a rusty bondo bucket with rotten tires. Pass.
Well, I didn't wanna go home with an empty trailer! So......
Saw this pic in a Nebraska craigs ad....... '48 Ford Tudor Super Deluxe 8 cyl. In a barn since '72, runner driver when parked, $1995 asking.
Ventured out in 20 degree temps and freezing rain to go look at it. Rougher than expected but VERY complete, with title but no keys. It's got 2" of ice all over it but what was visible just screamed rat rod. Guy says no reason the engine shouldn't turn.
No keys, can't get into the trunk. No biggie, probably full of mouse carcasses anyway. Hood release cable (yeah, that's correct) is seized, no getting under the hood, ice was probably gonna make that impossible anyway. I'm sure it'll turn, after all, it's been in a barn for 40 + years right?
Doors open fine but lower door sills are rusty and floors aren't great.......but ok we'll just put down sheet metal road signs for floors anyway right?
What the hell, the guy is willing to take less than half his asking price, had to grab it right?
Now, the ground is covered in ice, trailer deck is a sheet of ice, the front wheels don't rotate as the drums are seized. I'm sure some plywood on the ladder style trailer ramps and this beast should slide right up onto the trailer with moderate effort from the frozen winch and battery.....right?
OK and the yard is angled down hill and to the left....... Yeah, perfect conditions all around.
Well the beast slides left off the ramps, left front tire busts the trailer tail light. Awesome.
Have the guy use his truck as a pivot with straps going from each axle on the passenger side to his receiver hitch as I winch. It wasn't pretty but was successful. 1 1/2 hrs later I'm on the road headed home.
No photos of all that hilarity, too cold and in a hurry to get going.
Stop for lunch a couple hours later, much of the ice has melted from the top surfaces..... Damn. It's RUSTY. 40 years of barn dirt layered on it have decayed the hood and pass fender surfaces badly, flaking rust. Put my knuckle through the worst spot. And then I look at the roof, it's solid..... but has a massive dent. Dammit.
Probably gonna find the engine seized at this rate.......IF I can get the hood open.
Might be best to just cut it up into car-art.
Damn my impulsive vehicular A.D.D. :banghead: :laugh:
Well, I didn't wanna go home with an empty trailer! So......
Saw this pic in a Nebraska craigs ad....... '48 Ford Tudor Super Deluxe 8 cyl. In a barn since '72, runner driver when parked, $1995 asking.
Ventured out in 20 degree temps and freezing rain to go look at it. Rougher than expected but VERY complete, with title but no keys. It's got 2" of ice all over it but what was visible just screamed rat rod. Guy says no reason the engine shouldn't turn.
No keys, can't get into the trunk. No biggie, probably full of mouse carcasses anyway. Hood release cable (yeah, that's correct) is seized, no getting under the hood, ice was probably gonna make that impossible anyway. I'm sure it'll turn, after all, it's been in a barn for 40 + years right?
Doors open fine but lower door sills are rusty and floors aren't great.......but ok we'll just put down sheet metal road signs for floors anyway right?
What the hell, the guy is willing to take less than half his asking price, had to grab it right?
Now, the ground is covered in ice, trailer deck is a sheet of ice, the front wheels don't rotate as the drums are seized. I'm sure some plywood on the ladder style trailer ramps and this beast should slide right up onto the trailer with moderate effort from the frozen winch and battery.....right?
OK and the yard is angled down hill and to the left....... Yeah, perfect conditions all around.
Well the beast slides left off the ramps, left front tire busts the trailer tail light. Awesome.
Have the guy use his truck as a pivot with straps going from each axle on the passenger side to his receiver hitch as I winch. It wasn't pretty but was successful. 1 1/2 hrs later I'm on the road headed home.
No photos of all that hilarity, too cold and in a hurry to get going.
Stop for lunch a couple hours later, much of the ice has melted from the top surfaces..... Damn. It's RUSTY. 40 years of barn dirt layered on it have decayed the hood and pass fender surfaces badly, flaking rust. Put my knuckle through the worst spot. And then I look at the roof, it's solid..... but has a massive dent. Dammit.
Probably gonna find the engine seized at this rate.......IF I can get the hood open.
Might be best to just cut it up into car-art.
Damn my impulsive vehicular A.D.D. :banghead: :laugh:
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