OK kids, I went to get this thing yesterday. 5hr drive that turned into
8. Blew out a trailer tire on I-20, fortunately I had got a new spare
on Monday. Jacked up the trailer, took off the old (shredded) tire and
go to put on the new one. Doesn't fit. Apparently the tire shop gave me
someone else's wheel/tire, the wheel looked just like mine but the bolt
pattern was bigger. Hmmmm.
So there is an exit a mile down, the 3-wheeled trailer looked like the
missing hub/drum won't drag, so I go on down there and get off. Nowhere
GA. I look on my maps app and there is a tire shop a few miles down
some country road, so I head there. I get there and there is an old
garage in ruins, I guess that ain't no tar shop no mo. So then the next
nearest one is another 6 or 7 miles away, so I head there on back
country roads (rural Georgia is.... interesting). I come to a sizable
town and find the tar shop, get that tire replaced and another that is
looking a bit iffy while I am at it. Nice guys at the place so that was
a positive. Then hit a Tractor Supply to buy an actual spare wheel/tire
so I have one in case of another mishap. An adventure!
I get to where the car is, 3hr later than I had figured, sort of
semi-rural area, nice properties and houses around. I get in there,
park the truck and trailer, no car anywhere. So I get out and look
around, it is sitting down about 20ft below where I am parked, the back
of the lot slopes down to a creek and the car is down there. Kinda
wooded around it, there is sort of a path through the woods down the
hill to get down there. How the hell is that thing going to come out of
there?
The guy I had been dealing with, this young guy who is really nice,
tells me this long story about how the previous owner of the property
like 4yr ago was a mechanic and he had dragged a bunch of cars from his
shop, people had left them there or something, and parked them down
there. His step somethingorotherz lived there now and wanted the cars
gone. He had sold a bunch of them but this SEC was left. We discuss
how to get it out of there, he says some guys had come with tow trucks
and what not and dragged the others out.
This was before massive rains a coupla days ago. So the whole area is
wet and soggy and muddy, wet leaves and grass and whatnot all around. I
figure I will back the truck down there, get some air in the tires of
the car that will hold air, and I brought some old 126 wheel/tires along
to bolt onto the car if I needed something to roll it with as in the
pics it looked like one or more were off the rims. I have this little
12V compressor to plug into the truck, got air into 2 tires so that was
promising, was going to try one of the fronts. Tired to move the truck
closer to the front and it just started sliding. OK then maybe I will
just hook a chain to the car and the truck and see if I can drag it a bit.
Get in the truck and move it a bit, the wheels immediately start
spinning on the mud. Well that is not suggesting I am going to be able
to drag the car when the truck can barely move. I manage to get back up
the hill, talk to the kid and decide to forget about it for now unless
he can find a tractor or something to drag it up the hill out of the mud
pit. Or maybe if things dry out it might be easier to do something with
it. He says he will work on it, try to get me my $100 back (I had sent
him $100 to hold it, would pay the other $100 when I got there) which he
has already sent to the guy who "owned" the cars, and who was apparently
quite a hard case. So maybe... Anyway he was fed up with dealing with
all these cars, I sympathized, tried to figure something out. Oh well...
The car actually did not look too bad, it had been sitting for 4 years
but generally decent condition. The interior (velour???) was nasty but
I saw that in the pics. Everything else looked decent, considering, one
small rust spot behind the RR wheel. It was actually quite surprising
it was not nastier or more beat up. The engine room was not too bad
either, surprising. For $200 it was more than worthwhile.
So after all that I decided to head back home, told the kid to let me
know what might sort, if he could get it out of there I would come back
and get it at some point. I might be out $100, I guess the cost of an
adventure, if the kid can't get it back from the curmudgeon or if we
can't figure out how to deal with it. (Plus the trailer tires and the
aggravation, but hey it's a journey...)
On 11/23/20 12:48 PM, Buggered Benzmail wrote:
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