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08-03-2008, 09:55 PM | #1 |
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Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
This was one of those long story deals.. You know the ones oh sure it will be easy just ride over and roll it up on the trailer and take it home .... NOT. I would have turned around as soon as I laid eyes on her. at the bottom of a step hill in the woods about 5 feet from a stream and been there untouched since 1985 ! But atlas I had already driven 45 min to get it so I went for it. after 2 hours of digging out so I could jack it up enough to get the frame out of the dirt and block the tires up some so I could winch it on the trailer ( frame bent and crushed the first 3-4 places I tried. Then we had the Snake den under it. Then we had th rusted apart steering shaft and all 4 wheels locked tight so I had to jack it up and back the trailer under it and winch and it was a mess!! the frame broke i half on the passenger side and the one trailing arm broke off the rear and that made for **** trying to load it but we got it on.Now the last problem up a steep hill that is slimy mud with a trailer !! good thing I have a heavy diesel, 4x4,mud terrains and a locker otherwise I would have been done it took me 6 runs at the hill to make it up backing all the way down into a stream to make it !!! It was utterly the last try before I unloaded it and gave up. Once out on the road I thought I was going to jail !! one headlight fell out going up the road, and all kinds of dirt was coming out from under it. I even had a snake roll off the trailer at the first stop sign !! I just had to laugh. Anyway here are some pics for you guys to enjoy. I was so rotten I took it straight to the junker. the seat mounts rusted thought the floor and the springs were on the floor and t was about as strong as wet paper towels.
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08-03-2008, 10:01 PM | #2 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not wat to leave home.
Wow! I just can't imagine one being that rusty! I have had those kind of adventures though. That's just the nature of haulin junk I guess!
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08-03-2008, 10:21 PM | #3 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not wat to leave home.
I helped pull an Eldorado out of a resting place liek that. Parked in 89, sank in the bud, the rockers were burried. Took about 8 hrs of digging and pulling and jacking.
The engine was not locked up, so i put it in the longhorn, and so far, other than a little mild knocking, it's holdin up great! |
08-03-2008, 11:25 PM | #4 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not wat to leave home.
You could have sold it to science for more.
That thing is so rusty the glass is rusty!!
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08-03-2008, 11:32 PM | #5 |
its all about the +6 inches
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Re: Panel truck that Did not wat to leave home.
was there anything at all worth keeping?
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08-04-2008, 01:29 AM | #6 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
After all that there had to be one part you wanted to keep.
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08-04-2008, 06:46 AM | #7 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
it was so rusty the tins for the gauges were just green mold, holes in the roof terrible . I tossed some stuff in it to haul to the junker and the whole side bowed out. It was not attached from the door frame to the rear doors, the rear floor fell though what a mess. In the end only thing i kept were some pictures.
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08-04-2008, 08:03 AM | #8 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
How was the dash pad?
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08-04-2008, 09:14 AM | #9 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
Taking that one off to the scrapper just made the rest of em worth more.
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08-04-2008, 09:46 AM | #10 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
Sounds like it was a little better off than this one sitting in the woods next door to my parents house, it's been in the same spot for about 30 years.
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08-04-2008, 02:15 PM | #11 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
it was so rusty the tins for the gauges were just green mold
Wow those are both rusty.. can you even recycle something like that..
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08-04-2008, 04:00 PM | #12 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
You could have saved it, just use some duct tape, wax it, and she would have been ready to rock n' roll.
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08-04-2008, 08:51 PM | #13 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
That Thing Looks Like Something James B. Would Have Chrome Plated.later,buddy
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08-04-2008, 09:14 PM | #14 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
With vehicles like that you just give`m a few more years and come back to clean up the tires,glass,gaskets,and lenses.It`s not alot of work.
At least you didn`t need a chain saw for that Panel.
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08-04-2008, 09:25 PM | #15 |
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Re: Panel truck that Did not want to leave home.
Naw man...that things gonna need a buffer for sure!
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