One Sickening '50 Imperial

["Carmak" <carmak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    The lesson here is to inform your local scrap haulers that particular
old cars are worth more to you than the scrap yard and then follow through
whan they find something. Most haulers will drop a car off at a location
(your house or a local repair shop) and come back and pick it up a couple
days later for some cash or for filling the car with scrap metal.

    I know most of the local haulers and the parts cars most often find me.
Once the car has made it inside the gates of the scrap mill it is too late.

    Happy hunting!

-----Original Message-----
From: FltSgt@xxxxxxx <FltSgt@xxxxxxx>
To: Mailing-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Mailing-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chrismickle@xxxxxxxxx <Chrismickle@xxxxxxxxx>;
46-48chryslers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <46-48chryslers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:37 PM
Subject: IML: One Sickening '50 Imperial


>Hola
>
>Today while at work I was passed by a pick up truck with the 5th wheel flat
>bed trailer loaded with older vehicles.  I followed the truck to "Alpine
>Steel."  The vehicle went through the scales before I could get to it.  On
the
>trailer was a 1950 Imperial.  After work I went back to the "crushers" to
ask if
>they would let me remove items.  The answer was a firm no, but he did agree
to
>let me have a look.  All of the bright work was in a box that was in the
trunk.
> That was one good looking box.  The wheel covers and the carb and some
other
>chrome pieces were also in the trunk.  The right rear fender appeared as if
>some parts person had given the owner the new fender and they had bolted it
on.
> The interior was in about one hundred and forty three pieces for it looked
>as if they were getting ready for new upholstery.
>
>I did go back to the yard boss and asked if it would be possible to buy the
>generator from him.  His answer was, " ... if I start now I will be having
>every old car nut begging for this and that,"  I moaned about that car
having a
>positive ground six volt generator and that you can not find a new one, and
>.....  That yard boss must like his position for he would not change his
mind.
>
>                                   Rodger
>                                   Colo Spgs
>
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