How much for the hairpiece???
(Bald) Herb
Christian Stanton wrote:
> What happened? I come back from a weekend breaking down a Saab 96 and find
>people shooting at each other????
>
> My 2nd BGT I bought shortly after Halloween. A friend approached me at work
>and asked if I wanted another one of "those cars" (I was driving a 74.5 rubber
>bumpered BGT). A "weird" guy had broken down in front of his house and he had
>started a conversation with him. In between the guy's curses, my friend asked
>him what he wanted for the car. The guy said "give me what it will cost me to
>tow it...$35-". I of course said yes and bought the car for $35 through my
>friend. I never met the owner. I happily went to the registry and paid my
>$1.75 in State Tax.
>
> When I drove up and saw the car, it was a '70 BGT (Mustard Yellow resprayed
>Silver) almost no rust, 65K miles. It turned out the clutch arm bushing had
>worn and had fallen against the clutch shaft. I wired it up with stainless
>wire and drove it home.
>
> On cleaning the car out, I find:
> - The carpeting has been redone in "corn chowder" style puke yellow, 2" shag
>carpeting, under and in the shag I find:
> - A hairpeice (brown)
> - Half a set of dentures (top)
> - Several ladies stockings (none matching)
> - Several very old condoms (unused thankfully)
> - A doll's head (Barbie, I think)
> - 2 doileys (the lace thingys, not paper)
> - A Socian Security Card (not the former owner)
> - A racoon tail (like from a Daniel Boone hat)
> - Another set of keys
> - $25 in assorted change
>
> Net cost $10 and the entertainment value more than made up for it.
>
> I drove it until, I did a clutch job on the car in February without a lift,
>in an unheated barn with a wind chill (under the door) of -20 degrees F. I
>went through at least 6 light bulbs in the drop light because of the cold.
>
> I drove the car for 2 more years, without investing much of anything.
>
> Every time I think of that car I remember two things:
> - The strange circumstances that I bought it under and wondering what bizarre
>things that car had seen.
> - Calling my girlfriend (now my wife) on Valentines eve, greasy and numb from
>doing that clutch job.
>
> Apologies if this previous owner is on the list....I don't want to know.
>
> Chris Stanton
> That car lives on in my '78 Midget (the SU carbs).
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