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Originally Posted by GeorgeJetson
Eventually he lost the property and the city came and hauled all the junk away.
How bad off was the T-Bird?
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Basically the above scenario is what's become of the guy's property....the town is on them bigtime to get everything cleaned up within a certain timeframe.
From the outside, the T-Bird didn't look bad. In fact, the man told me that the car was driven back to its resting place over 30 years ago....he remembered how driving it to the back put a crack in the top of the septic tank as he drove it. It had sunk up to the rockers in the ground, so I'm guessing that since the place was so wet and muddy even in June, that anything underneath would be rusted to the point where you'd have to use torches to free anything up.
But here's an update on my venture
I got one of the chain saws, a Remington Mighty Mite 500, running flawlessly. Starts on the first pull. I did have to use parts from 3 of them to get it going, and I think I can still put one together with the remains of the other two.
The tractors didn't sell on ebay, even at the price I had them listed, so I decided to assemble the best components into one machine and begin there. Figured the old Bolens deserved a new paint job too, so I began that yesterday. Kinda fun. And it looks a lot happier
Kinda reminds me of "Dizzy" from Bob the Builder