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Sorry, Lloyd Bridges' son still has the container full of "32's............... He's just waiting for them to dry out so he can put 'em on e-Gay
I look everyday and so far the best deal I've ran across and bought (last month) was a real nice running driving 95 Vette that needed a rear bumper for $1,300. Guess I need to keep looking.
This story is not ALL bs... There's an old lake by my house that is no longer there. Water is gone, and I was just out there a few weeks ago and there were at least 10-15 '32 Fords and lots of other cool cars. I have pics to prove it too. Old lake Bonneville. Nothin' but worthless salt out there now.
Hmmm... I have a buddy that did the same thing in the same area. The car is sold now though. Was he from the Central Coast? Maybe his came from the Fresno area?
Did I post this already? I've read of a supposedly true story wherein a gentleman bought an old boxcar that had been pushed off to the end of a track at a big railroad car repair shop, and forgotten so long it had trees growing up preventing it's movement. Upon opening the doors of the boxcar he discovered it to contain a couple of brand new Packards, circa mid-30s to late '40s. It's certainly plausible, given that that's how autos were shipped then, and that the railroad in question (the PRR, later Penn Central) would later have a shortline actually steal freight cars from them by repainting the marks and have that take quite some time to be discovered. Also, anyone who's tried to ship via rail probably knows well that even in today's world of magnetic car readers and technology, railroads can still "lose" cars and sometimes entire trains for weeks at a time. And there's no shortage of places where railroad cars were left when wrecked or dumped to serve as fill/riprap/erosion prevention. Locomotives even.
The story about the license plates being used for roofing and siding is likely the only true story there BUT they didn't fall from a derailed boxcar most likely either. As it happens new registrations of cars as well as re-registrations of cars were at an all time low in 1932-33-34 probably in every state in the Union. Courthouse ba*****ts in Texas were filled with boxes of new pairs of 32-33-34 plates. They were everywhere at swapmeets in TX and OK and LA for years and sold for less than used Model A plates and many others. The thing that made plates expensive was the matched set law where you can have a Year Of Manufacture tag on your car today. I'd bet those new but never used plates were either sold or donated by the state or county for use by anyone who needed them and thus they ended up as roofing shingles and siding shakes.
I may have already posted 2 years ago when this thread started but I have heard the rock lake story since I was little kid catching ****pie(it's a fish if you didn't know) and dodging rattle snakes in/around rock lake. Still watch for the glint of chrome under water anytime I am on the east side of the lake where the tracks used to be. Most likely true but won't ever be found there are spots in that lake that have never been measured acurately for depth, way depp and then per national geographic potentially hundreds of feet of mud/silt thet they gave up before hitting a "solid" bottom. cool story either way chris
Man, that is an old style car with the brake wheel mounted up at the top like that. How did you get that picture? Is it that real or what?
I always loved this story: For Sale: 1967 Corvette....427-435.... Owner died in car and was not found for a month..... Car has smells of death .... Tried everything to get rid of stench but no go..... Buy this car for $1500.00
The boxcar thing is ********... But I just can't stop watching this... At first I'm like "Yeah, OK... Next!" but then I just can't stop laughing.... It's like a train-wreck... Which brings us back to the boxcar... Which is clearly ********.
I read a story in the local paper a few years back that was nuts. The story goes there was an old lady who was wealthy. Her husband had died a while back. She had a gardner that would come and do her yard work often. He talked with her and kept her company. One day they got to talking and she told the gardner about an old car that belonged to her husband in the garage. She told him if he wanted he could have it. It took a a little while but he finally pulled it out. It was a near mint Shelby Chevy Cobra. Carroll Shelby built 5 or 6 Chevy milled Cobras. This thing ended up being worth millions. the old woman's family found out and began a legal battle with the poor gardner over ownership rights to the car.
Ok, nobody's buying cars lost under water; how about a steamboat buried under (almost) dry land? http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/07/06/steamboat-arabia-museum/
my 35 master had a cut up 32 plate holding the insulation in place under the rear window i swear it was factory looked like it had never been disturbed so the plate thing is probably true
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