Brad: Should this story not turn out to be true, at least it helped to
brighten up the past few days. Perhaps this is part of the winter doldrum
phenomenon, when any wisp of hope that Nirvana does exist is grasped
mercilessly and wrenched beyond all expectation. Gee, now all I have
to dream about is the rumour that Spring does exist!
Robert Carley
Ontario, Canada
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Brad Kahler wrote:
> Hopefully some or most of you read Fred Thomas's brief note on these
> parts. I'll expand it here a little bit since I'm the one that got
> everybody's hopes up!
>
> Fred talked with this guy thursday and the story he got was
> definitely not quite the same as I was told. Yes the garages do
> exist but it would appear that they are filled mostly with sheet
> metal parts and the like. What he had told me about NOS didn't match
> what he told Fred. As I said in my first post, the conversation I
> had with the guy was real strange, (Fred said the same thing).
>
> For those of you who live close to Springfield Mass, and want to
> attempt to contact him, his name is Forrest and the # is 413-736-0463
> and according to fred his business name is British Spares. Thats
> something he never did tell me. It would be interesting to hear from
> someone that can actually go meet the guy. Maybe there's more there
> than we realize anyway. But from what Fred said I rather doubt it
> now.
>
> As I said before I apologize if I got anyone's hopes up but first
> impressions led me to believe that there really was a "treasure
> trove". IF it had been true......!!!!
>
> Anyway I hope someone can check it out and let me know how much junk
> (stuff) is really there. Who knows, one of you might get lucky and
> find the part you really need!!
>
> As it is I'm still going to look for the garage that has all of that
> NOS still sitting in crates!
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
> 1964 Spitfire4 BFC25720L (After 10 years will be on the road in
>March!!!)
> 1966 TR4A CT72398L (Needs Restoration)
> 1951 Dodge Truck 82217766 B-3-B-108 (Boxes & Boxes of parts right now)
>
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