Announcer: "On this episode of American Hot Rod - After an utter dissapointment in Tulsa Boyd and the crew head for Spokane.... but when tempers flair and feelings get hurt... Duane gets a new tattoo... and Boyd finally runs out of Hawiian shirts... on this episode of American Hot Rod" ------ music ----- Duane: "Ya know Boyd always has these crazy ideas that he is gonna resurrect some car... I just gotta keep the guys in the shop focused on the build..." Boyd: "Really Duane it ain't that bad... And this time we have NINE weeks!" Dan: "The body isn't very good on this one... After being underwater for water for 75 years you could drive the train through the rust holes... but I think this is gonna be one of our best builds yet..." Robert: "You'd never see this crap over @ Foose's..." Boyd: "Ya know I just don't know what's gotten into these guys lately... maybe I should bring some Hooter's girls down to the shop..." Duane: "Boyd this body is just so rough... the body shop is gonna need it for 8 weeks... Do you think Gabe can do the upholstery in 2 hours..." Boyd: "Really Duane it ain't that bad..." Duane: "Boyd, honestly look at these rust holes..." Boyd: "And that's why I like fiberglass..." ------- Commercial break -------------- Commercial 1. "Hi, I'm Boyd Coddington and a hot rod isn't a hot rod until it sounds like one..." Commercial 2. "Duane, this is Mrs. Johnson's car she needs wipers, brakes, etc, etc... and she has a bridge game in an hour..." Commercial 3. "Bitchin is a word I use alot... when I see a cool car that I built... I use it to discribe Jo when she's talking to me at home... TLC....The Learning Channel..." Announcer: "Next week on American Hot Rod... when tempers flair and feelings get hurt... "
that was a very killer yard ,i used to stop and take a look every time i went by there .then one day it was all gone.... bare field. been that way for about 10 years ...
This is an urban legend. I've heard the same story relating to another location. Still fun though, and worth hiring a diver to check out.
What happened to51 Gringo? Did he take the cherry '32 vicky or the '32 3w. His buddy has had enough time to dredge most of the lake by now. When I worked for a wrecker company in the 80's we retrieved a '59 Impala convertable in about 30' of water (guy drove off a boat ramp, had mental problems). The job took about 3 hours after arriving on the scene. So, what's the hold up? He didn't find that aircraft carrier with the 500 '67 435 hp 427 vettes that was reported to have gone down in that same area did he? If so remind them that I've got dibs on the Goodwood green coupe with the black leather interior. I don't mean the one with the ski rack, I don't ski. Frank
It only took me 5 minutes to get home from work yesterday because I magically gained powers of levitation after I saw the shadow of a dodo on the corner of Bumby and Mills. Floating is so much fun, and when combined with this prototype WW 11 Jet Pack I found abandoned in the basement of a discount appliance store, I can get to damn near anyplace I want in 5-10 minutes flat.
Note to self: Must resist compulsive note taking. cc: Resist compulsive note taking. bcc: No more notes.
Now that we have seen the Tulsa Belvedere I imagine there is less urgency to recover the Norseman from the Andrea Doria.
Ha, my uncle used to own wrecking yard some where in Washington from the 20's -60's. He had a monopoly on them in fact. He had several that were near water, either a lake or swamp (not sure if there are swamps there) scuse me "wetlands". Anyway, he would push cars into the water until they piled up enough and expand his land out into this lake/marsh/wetland area. So somewhere there's a boatload of cars burried near a lake, that is unless he filled the whole thing with cars.
Posted too quick, just asked my dad and it was in the 1940's and it was in the Puget Sound. My dad said my uncle which is actually his uncle put hundreds of model A's and 20's and 30's cars into the sound. On a similar note, my friend who's an old hotrodder told me about when he lived in LA at his folks house and he got a better flathead V8 and transmission to put into his hotrod so he burried his old engine/trans in his back yard. Still there. We've talked about going to try to pull it up just for fun but haven't so far. And last but not least, when I used to work at my friend's hotrod shop, some guys that would come into the shop often that enjoyed hiking in the canyon near here kept coming in and telling us about all the old cars they would come across while hiking. One day they come in and tell us they found a 30's car and try to describe it. We tell them next time they are out there, pull off a part of the car and maybe we can identify what it is, or take a photo or something. So a week or two went by and here comes these guys and they park and begin unloading something out of their truck. They bring it over to us and it ends up being a bumper. A 32 ford bumper. gotta go right now, more on that later.
I "timecapsuled" the old 3.8 block out of my Rustang in the sub-base under the concrete floor of my garage. I intend to leave DaVinci code like clues to its whereabouts when I die, leading hotrodders 100's of years from now to find the motor, that still won't be worth a shit! CHAZ
Nice story they say there is one born every minute. but here's a question that is valid and may make an even better story. Did you really get the Chev sedan and is it a usable piece?
While we're talking stuff under water. I was told this story by an Australian rodder a few years ago. Don't have the slightest idea if it's true! But it is, interesting. An Australian rodder bought 1 Richard Zocchi built custom and 1 John DAgostino built custom. Put them in a container, loaded them on a container ship for Australia. Halfway there ship hit a storm and that very container breaks loose and slips over board gone! My thought was that if its true that a container was shipped with those cars in it. And the container never made it! The first thought that entered my mind was, I bet that container never got onto that ship in the first place, or maybe did make it to Australia but never made it to the guy who bought them. Like I said I havent got a clue as to the truth of this story. But it makes a good story.
Actually, Yes I did get the '32 Chevy Sedan, but never did hear anymore 'bout the deal, probably because it's just a story....that has been told from generation to generation as it seems. Like I said, don't shoot the messenger, just thought I would share, it sounded insane to begin with but even if it were...poss, it would be shit today. Sorta sorry I even posted in the first place...I'm retarded for even repeating it, but whatever, can't please them all. Heres the shitbox I bought. Later! *************Closed***************
Me too, and thanks for the story. My Dad really did tell me one like it when I was a kid. He's been gone 20 yrs. but this brought a cool memory back.
If they are down there they might be good. This tank still ran. http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2893. More pics http://www.mil.hiiumaa.ee/2000_09_14_kurtna_T-34-36/.
No real great find story, but a great guy by the name of Bazel Slaughter (one of the best machinists of today) came across this body at Spokane, Wa swap meet and called me about it, a good deal for a thousand bucks to say the least. So, I drove up there to get her and heard this crazy story about these 32's, and was mesmorized by it(being nieve) I suppose, and shared the experience with the hamb community. The numbers however were done after the fact. I like aged shit....
I heard a story like that, except it was an Autralian guy who shipped cars from the east coast via Panama to Australia. The container never showed up - but it was found, eventually - Sitting on a dock in India, doors swinging in the wind, as empty as the day it was made. Pretty sure that one's a true story, given he wants me to ship this engineless, front-suspensionless hulk to the west coast before going in a container. Apparently this other container departed ship at Panama, I guess ships are too big for the canal now and a lot of them have to be unloaded into one boat to go through and reloaded to a bigger boat to continue once through the canal.
Maybe know one cares, but this story is partly true. I grew up in Spokane. Here is the real story. The cars are in Rock Lake, WA. This is copied from the Rock Lake website. Sorry it is not as cool as 32's "Train Wreck Mystery: (1908-1915) Several boxcars full of new Model T Fords are reported as still at bottom of this lake. Divers have so far not been able to locate them due to lack of exact crash site, but it is probably near Johnson's beach. Here is a real mystery awaiting divers desiring a challenge. Many people have verified that it is down there, though others question this. No one has been able to find it."
Hell if if he sorts that out there is a vessel on the bottom off Dunedin here in N.Z. with some brand new T's in it too, from memory 6 or so...... me thinks they would be pretty much usless by now.
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