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Almost all of the original parts were in boxes inside the car. When I cleaned it out 5 years ago, I stacked all the parts on pallets in the barn. Those 2 trumpet horns brought $500 on ebay! |
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More parts laying on the ground in the barn. This is some of the seat frames. |
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As impossible as it sounds, the inner tubes actually held air! This is a mini air compressor running off my truck's lighter. This front right tire went down after 30 minutes, but the back 2 tires stayed up. The front left tire went down pretty quick, though. |
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The front grill is going to need some work! |
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The trailer is in position. My cousin Scott, on the left, helped me get the chains ready. Thanks for everything, Scott!! |
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I thought we could ratchet the car up the ramps with a come-along, but the flat front left tire made it too hard. |
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Time for plan B! We used my grandfather's tractor to lift the front end and pull it out. There was a trailer hitch dolly thing bolted to the front frame rails. We wrapped a chain through that, and around the tractor bucket to get the flat tires off the ground. |
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The tractor worked pretty good, we just had to be very careful not to hit the walls of the barn with the car. |
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The car gets its first splash of sunlight in 25 years! Next step, pulling it up on the trailer. The camera memory filled up, and I was too busy to download, so the next page you see is the car on the trailer. |
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