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Re: [Tigers] Junkyard vacation (part 2)

To: <CoolVT@aol.com>, <tigers@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Junkyard vacation (part 2)
From: "Peter Laurinaitis" <laurin212@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 17:07:37 -0400
mark - any pics you can share with the group?  sounds AWESOME.


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From: <CoolVT@aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: [Tigers] Junkyard vacation (part 2)


> After about 15 minutes of hiking and lugging the tool  bag I was
> exhausted...the roads felt like they would never end. But, if you like 
> old vehicles it's
> almost like entering heaven. It feels like stepping back in  time 40 
> years.
> The place is full of treasures. Absolutely no order to  anything....all 
> brands
> mixed together although the trucks seemed to be in  bunches in different
> places.
> I'm still not sure I saw every road. The place  really could use a map. I 
> got
> so winded hiking up the mountain and then through  the woods to look at 
> this
> vehicle and that vehicle that I decided to set my tool  bag down on the 
> edge
> of the road. I figured I'd come back and get it if I needed  tools. Big
> mistake. It took me 20 minutes to find the tool bag later. I couldn't 
> find the right
> road. Anyway, I was like a kid in a candy store for 4 hours. Sun  out, 
> warm
> weather and all alone on the mountain with the old vehicles. I got 2
> alternator brackets ($5 for the pair) and a few, small misc. things (no 
> charge).  And,
> this long winded account does have a point......
> There is a mail  delivery Jeep, right hand drive. The rear end is 
> completely
> intact. Guy  said he'd remove the whole rear end and put it in my truck 
> for
> $150. So, my  questions are....were all of these mail Jeep positraction 
> usable
> in a  Tiger? If not, what should I look for to identify it? Is this a 
> decent
> price?  Also a guy who worked "on the mountain" said he thought it was 4 
> wheel
> drive. I didn't check that. If it is, would there possibly be a usable 
> posi
> in the front too?
> Thanks for bearing with me. For those of you who had  to sit behind a desk
> today, don't worry. Your retirement days will come:-)
> Mark
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