i just spent the day looking at the most
incredible collection of old cars that
i've ever seen.it seems that some friends of my father
heard that i was restoring a 1930 sedan
and that i needed a few items, so they
invited me to their place to look
over what they had. it turns out that an 84 year old guy
has several houses and maybe 20 or
so farm out buildings clustered together.
every one of these buildings are
completely filled with old cars and
NOS parts. the guy was a complete ford
nut --- there was a 1916 brass radiator
model T touring car, several 1920's
T touring cars, a 1929 immaculately
restored Tudor, several 1932 commercials
(one of them still had a coca-cola
sign still painted on the passenger door),
a couple of late 30's coupes, some
mercurys, and maybe 15 other fords from the 50's. one of the model T's was driven into
one of the out buildings sometime
in the 40's and the doors to the
building nailed shut until just recently. i saw model A parts lying everywhere --
there were bell housings, timing covers,
blocks, whole steering columns with the
steering wheel, gear box, spark and throttle
rods all together, starters, generators,
ammeters in the original boxes, paintings of the cars
that would have been sent to the dealers,
champion spark plugs in the original
boxes, NOS fenders that still had the
factory lettering on them, etc., etc., i could go on and on; it simply was
incredible.the guy ended up giving
me a raditor shell; although it was
pretty rough, i think i'm going to
be able to use it.
doug handran
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