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Re: One of those "stories" - WyCROC Member - Dumb Luck

To: BARTERDUDE@aol.com
Subject: Re: One of those "stories" - WyCROC Member - Dumb Luck
From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:08:56 -0700
UNBELIEVABLE  LUCK!  Are you some sweet Mother Teressa type or did you just step
in it?  Either way...who cares.  Congratulations!  That is like winning the
Roadster Lottery.  One time I had a nice neighbor lady give me a green, 1947
Chrysler.  I could have converted the sucker into a condominium or a garage for
my roadster (it was huge, weighed three tons, but it ran).  Sold it for $75.
Guy
Tempe, AZ

BARTERDUDE@aol.com wrote:

> Hi Gang -
>
> Sometimes good things come to those that suffer.  Some on the last weekend
> WyCROC run heard this story, but for those who haven't experienced the beauty
> of the TOP of the WORLD from 14,264 feet up and got to hear this, gotta tell
> ya.
>
> While I has spending millions on having my '63 rod knock problem fixed, a
> young lady from the local auto parts wandered into the shop and saw my car.
> She asked the owner if he thought I would WANT ANOTHER?  He gave me her name
> and number and said her mother had a "Fairlady 2000" she wanted to "get rid
> of."  Dropped in Saturday and talked with the gal and she called her mother.
> Mom said she had a '69 Datsun that belonged to her departed husband that was
> parked in 1994 in the backyard and she wanted it "gone."  Went over later
> that day and discovered a real half decent looking "all there" '69 2000.
> Told her I could pull it out of there if she could find the key (locking
> steering wheel).  She found it Sunday, and once we got back from the climb up
> Mount Evans, headed over and hooked it up and towed it home.
>
> Here it is four days later and with the removal of a gazillion leaves and
> layers of grease off the engine, a new battery, oil change, antifreeze,
> gas....and ....VAROOM.  The beast CAME ALIVE.  Runs like a champ.  Everything
> but the tach works, has extra electric cooling fan (that works) electric fuel
> pump and runs out WAY FUN.
>
> Will have some major rocker panel rust removal and replacements (any ideas if
> there are body panels for the under the door area).  Need to replace the top
> back windows (but the top is in, as strange as it may seem, really workable
> shape).  HEY - FOR FREE, who's complaining ;-))
>
> Gary Lasater
> founding member www.wycroc.org
> 1963 Single Carb 1500 Fairlady SPL310-00289B
> 1970 1600 - SPL311-28169 (one of the last of the group)
> and now a 1969 2000 - SRL12536
> Parker CO 80134

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