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To: GremlinGTs@aol.com, gremlintime@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Definition of a good Saturday...free money, cheap auction buy...
From: Passnb4U@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:20:56 EDT
 I, uh...could use a few bucks...

  Mike

In a message dated 8/12/00 8:32:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
GremlinGTs@aol.com writes:

> Well, it couldn't have started off better for me this Saturday morning! 
>  Had planned on going to an auction early, but got a later start than I 
> wanted 
>  to. Left the house at 1/4 to 9, drove to the corner, turned it, and then 
>  notice a flurry of paper blowing down the street...sayyyyyyyyyy, doesn't 
> that 
>  look like MONEY!? I hit the brakes, threw the truck into park , hit the 
>  emergency lights, and my girlfriend and I jumped out to pursue the errant 
>  paper bits...wow, it's $20 bills! We rounded up 6, with a lady in an old 
> Ford 
>  Maverick ahead of us stopping to do the same...I don't think she got as 
much 
> 
>  as I did, I got $100, the girlfriend got $20, so I shared equally with 
her. 
>  Then as the lady up front pulled away, we noticed another bill that was 
> under 
>  the spot she just left, so we got that one, and made the total $140...if 
we'
> d 
>  have left a few minutes earlier or later, we'd have missed the "Blessed 
>  Event"! No one came back looking for any money, there were Home Depot 
>  receipts mixed in with the money, so they must have had it all on the 
>  dashboard or something stupid and it blew out the window. Oh well! We kept 
>  going, and bought alot of stuff at the auction...I spent $44, she spent 
$38, 
>  
>  not bad for a free paid day at the auction! Got some good stuff really 
cheap,
>  
>  I wanted an old Lionel "O" Gauge train, but that went rather high, at $270 
>  for a decent blue 40's or '50's tinplate train that had snake-jointed 
cars. 
> I 
>  went to $150, but stopped there. I got some patio furniture, a nice 
>  tractor-pull type of small trailer for only $35, and some box-lot stuff of 
>  $1/box variety. After we loaded up in the early afternoon, we hit some toy 
>  stores and fabric stores. I found a new TF '55 Chevy Cameo Truck, by 
Johnny 
>  Lightning, it's a Monopoly series vehicle with a van and an SUV being the 
>  other two I saw, at Wal-mart for $3. It's white with Water Works on it, 
>  1/64th scale, and the neat thing is, in the package is a bonus TF Monopoly 
>  piece for the board game! So you can play monopoly with a '55 Chevy Cameo 
>  truck piece. The others had little pieces as well, so you can now have a 
>  vehicle version game. Other vehicles listed include the '57 Chevy, 
Mustang, 
>  Willys, Corvette, Crown Vic, Pontiac Tempest, Dodge Viper, Chevy Tahoe, 
> Dodge 
>  Dart, and Utility Van. These are all current cars produced by Johnny 
>  Lightning under different series, probably. But the game pieces are neat. 
I 
>  didn't see any of these at Toys R Us, just Wal-mart today. 
>      I didn't find any AMC toys worth my time, only one more purple JL 
>  Thunderjet Javelin AMX, and I have plenty of those, so I left it. Pretty 
>  sparse for AMC toys today, but the old Cameo truck was nice. Got home, 
>  unloaded the truck, and went thru some of the treasures. The girlfriend 
hit 
>  the jackpot on a $1 box lot, lots of clothes, some from the Orient, and 
half 
> 
>  of them she could wear. Some were exceedingly fine, some silk, some 
>  polyester. Me AND my feet were just glad to be home! We decided not to 
tell 
>  the teenager, as he would think he'd be owed a cut of the loot! LOL! NOT! 
So,
>  
>  time to close down and enjoy the afterglow of a day well spent, but not 
>  costing us a dime! :) Hope everyone else had such good luck today! G'nite!
>  
>  Jerry
>  Money for nuthin', ( but the chicks still aren't free...)
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