it's a 1960 mercury comet. I good friend of mine bought it in 1988 took it apart and it's sat inside a house ever since. Yes i said house :O) My step father might buy it. Ifhe does we have to put it together and tear the rear of the house off to get it out. Anyone else find a car in a wierd place? Comet in a house
when i was a kid there was this guy who built a 429 cj in his dirt floor ba*****t, with only a narrow, wooden, damn near vertical stair case as an exit, and it exited in the center of the house! my folks almost killed me!
Henry Ford built his first car in a shed, and had to take the door frame off the building to get it out. But then we all knew that, right? -Brad
a real estate buddy of mine called me over to a new house he bought through an estate sale to look at what he found while replacing some drywall above the garage,....here where it begins...... the man who owned the house (before he died) had a 61 corvette that he bought brand new in 61, he got behind in his payments near the end of his first year, so instead of letting it get repo'd he had it suspended from the rafters above the garage and built a ceiling in the garage to cover it all up. apparently he never did anything with it over the years and it sat up there. the old man died and his house went up for sale, my buddy bought the house and completely gutted the house of its old drywall and replaced it. when his crew got into the garage they discovered the car suspended from the roof. my buddy called me to see it for myself cuz he said id never believe him if i didnt see it for myself! i said he was full of ****, and honestly thought he was pranking me and just trying to get some free labor out of me!...lol but sure as **** when i got there.....there it was hanging up there! my buddy didnt even know what it was! he ended up having to tear the whole roof section out where the car was and we got it out of there with 2 of my tow trucks, my forklift and a crane! and after a looooong battle with dmv, he owns the car to this day! when he gets back from vacation i will ask him to send me pics of it the day we discovered it! he took a ton of them cuz he knew noone would believe the story! that one i will never forget!
When I was in college, a friend lived in a trailer park on the edge of campus. He built a smallblock in his little ****py shed behind the trailer. The floor of the shed was about a foot off the ground, no slab or anything under, just MUD. One day he called me up to help him install his new motor in his '69 Nova. I get there to see that there is no easy way we were going to get it off the stand, onto the hoist, across the yard and into his car. After two hours, we got the engine on the hoist and moved about a foot away from the shed and litterly a foot sunk into the ground. I just so happened to be driving a sweet '78 Aspen sport coupe with enough trunk space to load a SBC. We lowered the engine into the trunk, drove it across the yard, back onto the hoist and installed the motor in the car in the middle of the road in the trailer park. I felt kind of white trashish that day....well Tim still owns the car and no longer lives in a trailer.
When I was about 10 years old my Dad and I was looking at a old house to rent and behind it was an old single wide wooden garage. Inside of it was a 1909 Metz touring car. Trouble was.....somewhere along the line somebody built a 6 foot high concrete wall around the garage just far enough away to open the doors. I never did find out what happened to that car.
I don't think anyone can top that story...!!! Although I built my first airplane in my folks ba*****t and I had to dis***emble it to get it out of the house in sections. Then I re***embled it at a friends farm so I could go flying...!
Somewhere around here there's a house with a practically new mid 80's Z-28 in it.. Evidently the people who bought it couldn't afford the payments so they 'hid' the car IN a house, stopped making the payments and claimed the car as stolen. I personally have not seen the car, but a friend has. Pretty dumb in my oppinion..Not keeping the car in the house, but to claim it stolen and stuff..There's not much they can do with it now.. My own cousin tore a wall down in his house and made some adjustment's to his family room so he could build his '51 panhead in his house.. That was pretty cool actually.. We watched TV as he worked on is bike..Haha He built the whole damn thing there too..
When I was in the Airforce A friend of mine put together a Smallblock in his room in the barracks Somewhere he scored a dresser that matched the rest of the furniture and gutted it then hid the whole works underneith it. When he got out we all got together and carried it down and set it in the p***enger side of his Chevelle, The ***** was his room was on the third floor, we carried it down the fire escape. He did buy the beer. Dawg
Back in 1978 or 1979 by brother and I re***embled the front end of a 1958 Chevy in our badroom, it was the last time my mother ever when in our bedroom again. ************************************************
I have a buddy who has a 69 L88 Vette in his bedroom. He has a gl*** door like a car dealer showroom to get it in and out.
When i purchased my Model A...It was in the dudes ba*****t all apart except for the body...Wich i'm thankful cause the body is spotless....
My own cousin tore a wall down in his house and made some adjustment's to his family room so he could build his '51 panhead in his house.. That was pretty cool actually.. We watched TV as he worked on is bike..Haha He built the whole damn thing there too..[/QUOTE] A guy i knew built three harleys in the living room of his condo, and routinley let his friends ride thier bikes into the house. The landlord would have kicked him out, but the landlord was so damn scared of the guy he would never say a word.
I knew a guy that kept his Porsche 906 Race Car in his bedroom ( Yes, he was married...) I was going to hang a Race Car off one of my living room walls, with tire tracks painted on the wall, but I should have done that before my Girlfriend moved in. For some strange reason she doesnt seem to think its a good idea... I knew a guy that rebuilt a car engine in the attic, and after that he had to figure out how to get it downstairs. Another guy I knew was restoring a Vintage English motorcycle in his livingroom ( including all the painting, etc )
Within the last 5 years a 1901 Locomobile Steamer was found walled up in a ba*****t. Early this year I went to look at a one owner Harley Pan Head that was in a bedroom.
We put a teacher's Fiat Spyder in the gymnasium when I was in High School. Well I say we, no one ever owned up to it for obvious reasons. I built an engine in the liveing room back in the '90s, but that's not so odd, my house has had either motor cycle and or car parts stuck in every nook n cranny as long as I can remember. My dad had a BSA Goldstar under the bed until I was about 7 or 8, then it moved to under my foster brother's bed. Somehow none of that seems to bizarre to me.
I'm building 2 XS650 choppers and a Harley Hummer in my kitchen as I don't have a garage. If there's any was I could fit a frame and body in there, I'd do a car too. I can weld and microwave mac & cheese at the same time, it's a pretty OK setup. At least until I get the garage thing figured out. Great story about the Vette in the rafters. Would love to see those photos.
Short story from my college years... Phone rings: Me: Hello? Dean of Men: This the guy with the motorcycle in his room? Me: Yea. Dean of Men: Get it out! The end. It was a 500 cc Matchless single. Overhauled it and painted it in the dorm. Got the call the day before we had planned on taking it home anyway.
My dad built his first rod in the ba*****t of his moms house, a 23 T back in the 60's, 1966 i think. I lived in that house till i was five, and remeber the ba*****t, i have no idea how they got the body down there, unless there was a cellar door that i dont remember! JEFF
Oddly enough I was looking at moving a car into my apartment when I lived in Connecticut so it could be considered part of the house for the move to Detroit (company relocation plan only included moving 1 car)!! The moving company did not find this amusing and did not consider a 'rearend, frame, ****** and engine' wall art!!
my dad tells the story of when in college he and some freinds dis***embled and carried a VW bug in pieces up to the second floor apartment of one of their buddies when he was off on vacation they re***embled it completely, even test firing it to make sure it ran. the freind was more pissed than amused.
My HS shop teacher (Gregg Grudem, some of you might know him) told me about a complete '59 Caddy convert in an old lady's ba*****t. Someone bought it cheap, but paid good money to remove a wall from the house, dig a ramp, pull the car out, then replace everything. I'm not sure on the numbers, but I think 6K bought the car and 10K dug it out. I too would love to see the pics of the hanging Corvette.
Back in 1990 I got a wild hair to put my 69 SS 350 Camaro Engine together in my den. I have pics of it in front of my Coke machine, It made the ***embly easier while I watched TV in the den & spent time with the "then" girlfriend putting piston rings on. Rolled the engine to the back door, extended the boom of the cherry picker as far as it would go without tipping=got it out, The girlfiend was nowhere to be found that day!!!! In 1999 my brother mails me & says "It's raining, no car progress to report, just an ad in the local paper-For Sale:- 1934 Hupp W417 3W Coupe, Looks like Ford-" So I get off line & ring him up as fast as I can, (My brother lives like 500mi away from me). I tell him,"Dude, Ya gotta go look @ this car!!!!" He says,"It's a Hupp!-What's the big deal with that " I say, Dude, That's not a Hupp, Thats a Ford 3W Body on a Hupp frame that is a factory deal!" Well, after he got all of his **** together I made him drive about 10 mi up 101 to downtown Santa Rosa to go check it out, He gets there, knocks on the door and asks to see the car in the paper. Guy says,"C'mon in, It's right there" points to the left of the living room & in front of the dining room, Sum***** put that ****er right inside the house!!! This car is pretty damn nice & my brother just goes nuts over it. Takes a bunch of 35mm shots & next days them to me. In that time he describes the car, I had never seen the front end of a W417, but I had seen the body,like 12yrs before in St Rodder, It looked like a 34Ford but with hard top style doors. That's all I knew about it. Well I had my bro put a down on it for me until I could get up there that weekend. I talked my buddy Oscar into buying an engine in Arcata Ca, so off we go in his p/u to get just an engine he thinks, I tell him when we get to my brothers @ like 10pm that Friday night that we have to go look @ this car I just bought He says " ". We call the guy that is selling me the car, break up his poker game & go over & check out the car, Yup-It's in the house! My buddy looks @ me in disbelief!!!,The guys tells me, "You better be serious about this, cuz I have to blow my door casings out in order to get this car out." I tell him that "I wouldn't have driven 500 mi unless I was serious" on top of that I still have a 400 mile round trip to get an engine ahead of me on Sat.. My brother took care of the $ stuff,while Oscar & I went to fetch a B-motor Banger. Car was outside by 5:30pm Sat, drove over to U-haul, picked out a trailer, Towed that ****er home the next day & was home by 11:30 am. Sun. I talk to the seller on Monday & I asked what he was going to do with that empty space "What empty space,I put an 70 AMX in its place" This guy has a bunch of cars in his house. I wish that I had take pictures of them all. Some guys are just nuttier than I am!!!!!
Built my first REAL bike in my living room, behind the couch, in 1969. It was a '47 Indian 74 Chief. When I finished, just had some buds help me roll it out the back door, put gas in it and rode the thing for about 3 or 4 years.
My grandfather built to of his Indians in his kitchen and yelled at my girlfirend for making me build mine in my garage. The second one he rode right out the back door and down the steps. A picture of him and bike hangs in Axle's garage now.
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