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jackq

jackq

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Although I rarely post on this site anymore...I thought a few of you may be interested in what I'm doing tomorrow. Tuesday I was contacted by a local businessman I know and asked if I'd be interested in helping him catalog and hopefully dispose of a few bugs he had just acquired in a land deal. Its a ways off but to make it worth my time...I can have some. He showed me a few pics...over 300 Bugs, mostly older than the 70s. I'm going tomorrow with cameras and notebooks and start this rolling. I'm not advertising..just informing. I'll post some pics once this deal is all locked up. Also there are buildings of parts.
 
I once knew a guy who bought a pristine Chevy wagon for cheap.
Seller told him it's a great car if you can get the bugs out.
This was in the winter. Car drove great coming home and he was perplexed as to what the bugs were. Once the heater got the Chevy warm he discovered what the bugs were. Roach infested.
He set a bug bomb off in it the next day. Unbelievable.
Buckets of roaches. He wound up stripping the entire interior,
head liner, seats, you name it. Removed the dash. Roaches everywhere. Turns out it had been sitting for several years
following an owner death, hence the pristine shape.
He took pictures and it as just unbelievable how many roaches could live in a Chevy wagon.
It wound up being a nice car...believe it not.
Sorry for the thread high jack, but the title just made me remember this incident.
I assume these aren't the bugs to which you refer. :wink:
 
The Sambas full of young kids and people looking for free stuff...I don't use them at all anymore..modt of these will be parceled out to VW restorers.
 
Any early type 3's? I am sort of looking for an early (pre 69) fastback.
 
Spent most of yesterday getting car overload...and only saw about 35 percent of the total vehicles. It'll take months..maybe years to open pathways to roads big enough to start removing these cars. 363 VWs..Ghias, Bugs, faastbacks. Then 22 split window buses(someone has spoken for all of them but no $ yet) HUndreds of antique cars...30s and 40s. Not much newer than the 70s. One huge building full of verts of various types. A Jensen Healy, a few spits...haven't located the old MGs yet. Took a few pics but am going to hold off on posting till what I want is removed. Have lost a few cars before being careful. They've hired me to help with the plan of removal. Going to position my motorhome there as this is going to be a long process.
 
What a fun "side job" that is going to be. I hope you are on the lookout for original EMPI and other hot rod goodies from "back in the day" I even enjoy a day at "Crazy Rays" the local pick a part, so something like this would be a blast. Remember my thing for air cooled chevies, and keep an eye out for Corvair goodies too.
 
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