In a message dated 11/11/02 1:45:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
lsr_man@yahoo.com writes:
> And then there was the custom '56 Mg coupe that I spotted behind a house in
> Pacific Grove, California when I was there in the Army. It turned out that
> it had actually won it's class in the Oakland Roadster show many years
> before, but it was in really poor shape. I decided that the best thing to
> do was cut off the custom "split window" hard-top, and turn it back into a
> roadster. I sold over 400 pounds of scrap lead that came off with the
> roof! Honest! I actually got more for the lead than I paid for the car,
> and more than I sold the car for when I got transferred.
> Dick J In East Texas
>
There was a REAL ugly costom here in connecticut that was scraped in the
1960's that produced a 55 gal drum worth of lead. Bob in connecticut
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