Hot Rods Missing '36 ford Pick up Bed

Gidday All from Down under .
The other week a fellow Hamber from Australia purchased this 1936 Ford pickup Bed From a guy In Duluth Minnesota . We have sighted the Delivery Docket , So we know it was picked up . It was supposed to have been delivered to a Shipping co at Indianapolis . The Freight Co - A 1 logistics had the task of transporting this to Indy .It would appear that they have lost this ?. How on Earth ? who knows . Seems Sus . They have offered a refund . So I'm just putting it out there , If anyone knows or hears anything about this , Your info would be appreciated . Regards Steve

 

Could be as simple as its in a "empty" truck trailer parked at the rear of the yard.If so it will turn up when that trailer is needed again.If it was put in a sea/land container for rail shipment to a coast it too will turn up....in time. I think I would have had the seller stencil a name/address/phone number on the inside just in case. I wouldnt take a refund for a couple months just in case it comes out of the wood work.Once paid off the trucking company will consider the matter closed.

 

Years ago, I'm talking 1980's we were waiting on some military equipment for two years. It was sitting on a flat car in a train yard in Texas. I left and it still never got there. I wonder if it ever did?

 

There was a thread awhile back about someone who had a '32 Ford shell shipped, but it somehow vanished into thin air. Insurance covered it, and the buyer eventually found another shell. Many months later, he got a call from the shipping company about delivering a crate; turned out to be the one he bought in the first place! Apparently the crate was moved into a warehouse with the shipping info against a wall during transit, and nobody bothered to check it out, so it just sat there until someone moved it. Hard to imagine a big crate like that getting lost, but stranger things have happened...

 

Heck, I lose a lot of stuff, but nothing that large.

 

I do not have a clue as to where your bed could be. The military item we were waiting for was an AN-GRC/142 RATT rig that was 8'X6'X5'. So no small item. It was the latest greatest secure radio teletype for the time. There was no secure voice radios at the time so anything you needed to transmit had to be manually encrypted. This encrypted and decrypted your message for you.


Hopefully this gets you another bump.