IML: yardsale finds

[<pnkmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I occassionally stop at yardsales, hope springing eternal that some fool 
will be selling a precious artifact.  As it happens, I'm more frequently the 
fool as I often come home with bargains that we don't need, haplessly 
populating our own yardsale box.  My wife is patient.

I was traveling to Jackson, Louisiana about a month ago on a Saturday, 
headed with my 10 year-old son to a car and train museum.  I'm forever on 
the lookout for  Imperial-related stuff (required Imperial content), and 
with that and other things in mind I stopped at a little yard sale/junk shop 
in a nameless town just east of Jackson on Highway 16, i.e. Nowhereville.

My son Sam found a tiny bottle with a penny trapped inside etched with "Las 
Vegas."  That cost a dime and he considers it treasure.  Oddly, there was 
also a Chryslter 300 chrome badge.  I believe I paid 50 cents for it.  It's 
got a few surface pits, but it's certainly salvageable.  I suspect it is 
from a mid-60's model 300 (I had a '70 300 and it didn't have this badge on 
it) probably from a quarter panel.  I've scanned a photo if anyone needs to 
see it.  I'll email the photo and mail the badge to whoever is interested, 
and will waive the 50 cent purchase price and postage.  Allow your guilt to 
arrest the urge to take it simply for the purpose of reselling it, though it 
can't be worth much.  Plainly, I'm anticipating the recipient being someone 
who can match it to their own 300.

Patrick
Covington, Louisiana
'58 Southampton (project)



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