ragtopfury
Well-Known Member
...almost uneventful, too. But what would a vehicle adventure bee without some kind of drama.......
As mentioned in the welcome board, brought my 14 yr old son's car home today. Of course all 4 tires are dry rotted beond being remotely safe for the road... So I put about 20lbs in each one with the red tank, just so we could roll it onto the trailer.... while draging the car out of the leaf pile it was sitting in, the left rear blew out... On went the original spare that was floating inthe spare tire well - I told ya it was solid underneath - keeps all the water in...... Upon dragging it out of the leaves, the left front wheel was locked up... shoes froze to the drum. 30 minutes into banging the crap out of it and prying on it, "Uncle Timmy" (who is apparently that neighborhood's friendly old drunk guy on a bike) offered to help. So we let him - I was ready to take a break anyhow.
Also had two other guys stop and ask how I managed to talk them into selling the car. They had been asking about it for the last 5-6 years and the owner refused to talk to them about selling it.
Got the thing home, backed the trailer into the driveway and the wife comes out and says it is not nearly as bad as she was expecting.... she remembers my Fury ragtop the day I brought it home - That one probably should have been scrapped, but i saved it and still have it.
So we had to grunt and sweat a little more than planned, met a friendly old drunk guy, cleaned out a driveway and got a save-able 65 fish for $400 - a good day in my book!
As mentioned in the welcome board, brought my 14 yr old son's car home today. Of course all 4 tires are dry rotted beond being remotely safe for the road... So I put about 20lbs in each one with the red tank, just so we could roll it onto the trailer.... while draging the car out of the leaf pile it was sitting in, the left rear blew out... On went the original spare that was floating inthe spare tire well - I told ya it was solid underneath - keeps all the water in...... Upon dragging it out of the leaves, the left front wheel was locked up... shoes froze to the drum. 30 minutes into banging the crap out of it and prying on it, "Uncle Timmy" (who is apparently that neighborhood's friendly old drunk guy on a bike) offered to help. So we let him - I was ready to take a break anyhow.
Also had two other guys stop and ask how I managed to talk them into selling the car. They had been asking about it for the last 5-6 years and the owner refused to talk to them about selling it.
Got the thing home, backed the trailer into the driveway and the wife comes out and says it is not nearly as bad as she was expecting.... she remembers my Fury ragtop the day I brought it home - That one probably should have been scrapped, but i saved it and still have it.
So we had to grunt and sweat a little more than planned, met a friendly old drunk guy, cleaned out a driveway and got a save-able 65 fish for $400 - a good day in my book!
