Need On Road Help Near Ina, IL!

[Steeveedee]

Wheel studs. I had acquired a really nice '54 Chevy 2 door post as payment for some work for a farmer (in Idaho). I was towing it behind my '66 Le Mans on a tow bar, and felt it wiggle behind me. I stepped on the gas and it straightened out. I ran out of gas and was thumbing a ride into Wells, NV with a can and got a ride. The guy told me I had a flat tire on the car I was towing. Great. Got into town, got a gallon of gas, thumbed a ride back out. No, not a flat tire, the left rear wheel was gone, along with the fender skirt. Unhook towed vehicle, go into town, get lug nuts and studs. The only thing I had to get the old studs out was an 8 ounce ball peen hammer. There I am, tink tink tink, when a road worker pulls up and lets me use his 8 pound maul. Studs out! I pushed the new ones in as far as I could and then used the nuts to draw them tight, stopping every few miles to re-torque them. Dragged that '54 up through Montgomery pass. I used the spare out of the Le Mans. If I had gotten a flat, I guess I would have taken the spare off the '54 and left it at the side of the road. I had barely enough money to get home to California, as it was, no money for more tires. Good times!