things you see when you havnt got a camera

go figure the one time my camera isnt with me and im blasting down the two lane and deside for no reason other then i just felt like it took into a town that other then blasting by the fring on the highway have never even seen before.

i didint know if it was just a gas station and a few houses or a full blown city!

turns out just a little teeny town, i figured id cruise threw and see if there was any old tin sitting in some ones back yard or any cool looking buildings, havnt realy anything else to do and i already randomly turned in so what the heck.

cruising down a side street trying to figure out why exactly im in this tiny town, why i 'just had to' pull in i catch a glimpse of something that could only have ben old metal with original black paint.

a quick u-turn and im pulling up right behind a 1932 ford 5 window. i hop out and sitting right in front of me is the only full fendered, non chopped, all original steel duece i have ever seen, crawl under neath and its all crusty except for parts that move, look threw the vents of the hood and theres the flatty. the inside sports anceint tuck and rool and panels with simple gauges and its rolling on some skinny red steelies and tall biasplies--spare tire on the passenger side front fender-- the only thing that appeared to be changed was the nice rake supplied by a mono leaf and a drop axel connected with non split bones.

wandering around the car in a daze an older woman pulls up and says "cool car huh, we just drove it here for the weekend, its gota 48 merc flathead in it, runs real smooth but ive gota go, have a nice weekend" and she was gone.

dont knwo were the car was from but it had a 1932 nebraska plate on the rear.

go figure, no camera

 

We don't believe you.

 

ha ha go figure, im tempted to borow a buddys digi and run back to see if its still there

 

well i went back today. turns out the car is ALL original , its sitting on the frame it came on and all!! drives it every day and parks it outside, i took a few shots of it. ill post them when i get them developed

 

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Tim, how can it be ALL original, yet have a '48 Merc engine and tuck & roll interior ? I guess, ya gotta 'splain it better, for us yahoo's that love stories like this.

 

Funny, I saw the same old woman and that deuce in a country town in Victoria, Australia. She told me she was just taking it for a drive as she does every week. She promised her husband she would turn it over weekly just before he left for Europe in 1942. She said he should be back soon and she better get home in case he calls. I watched her drive away into the setting sun. It was hard to see the car as she crossed the railway crossing and I don't know where she went but through my squinting eyes she just seemed to vanish. Wierd.

 

I took some pics of the car but when I got them developed the film was blank

 

i hope you werent drinking pbr

 

Cool story! Sounds like a bitchin old lady.

lets see them pics.

 

heard the same thing...but she put the cat in the nuke before she went for a ride

 

sorry all original other then the motor and droped front end. as in the fenders frame ect that are on it are the ones that came on it.

man-a-free was with me, he might post some pix before i do.

if i understood correctly the choped steel 5 window i saw going together was also his.

tim

--ive got like 4 pix left on this roll then itll go in,ill post them belieive me--

 

come on Tim, forget about the few remaining pics. we want to see some pictures!!

 

didnt get any shots of the choped5 window, and i think man a free may have have a few on his computer of it but either way i should have pix posted by wednesday.

....or you could come check out the american graffitti thing thursday and ill just show you it


tim

 

pix tomorow night

 

scaning right now

 

some pix the owner sent me--tan wheels are before shots
damnit to big, anyone want to shrink them?

im still scaning my shots ill see if there small enough

 

are they small enough?

dam thats the only one i scaned thats small enough? i scaned them right after each other anybody want to shrink 4 pix for me?

tim

 

well until i can figure out a better way here are some hopefull not that distorted shots, i tried to shrink them in paint. hope it works

 

Yep, that's the one I saw

 

ive got more pix if some one wants to shrink them

 

Tim went back over and talked to the guy again its got a 48 merc flattie in it other than that and the drop axel its all genny.hes an old hotrodder and is wife seems to be quite a hotrodder herself.the things a guy finds driving around in the sticks.

 

alright i think i have them small enough to post, im positive they are a bit distorted but i guess it works

 

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Tim, thanks for the update on the car and the pictures. COOL roadtrip find.

These kinda stories, used to be commonplace, kinda rare today.

The pic, of the owner sitting in it, giving the thumbs up, PRICELESS.