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I wish people would start leaving LBC's in my driveway - I'd find something for them.

I'll bet tomorrow I wind up with 2 RB midgets, and a tr7 - crap.
 
and I don't care if they even have wheels much less tires.
 
hmmm... wouldn't it be nice to wake up and find that someone left a MGC GT in your drive way ? hmmm...
 
I had a nice '60 Minor convertible dropped off once. Driveable, no less. A friend was moving back to Wisconsin from Arizona, and could only take one vehicle. He kept the Bugeye, and gave me the Morris.
Sweet.
Jeff
 
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I love it, ya just gota beleive that there is a LBC out there just looking for you to give it a good home.

Kinda like puppies and kittens.

[/ QUOTE ]My 79 Midget was a gift from someone moving and it had been in a shop (all paid for) with a 1500 installed ,painted and a small(?)(ofcourse duh) cam installed-he gave it to me because I loved Maggie & did so much free work for the poor suffering survivors of Lili-that was 2003.......little did we know what awaited us slightly down the road......
 
Its not the first time that's happened - my '79 Pageant Blue V8 car was the same....a friend of mine spent several years (& lots of $$'s) restoring it...shortly after he finished it, his wife took it for a drive & rammed it up under the back of a tractor trailer...took out the driver fender, hood & some other sheet metal....I came home one day back in 1995 to find it in the drive with a note that said something like, "$750. Bring either cash or check next time I see you. Title is in glove box - already signed over."

After letting the kids in the auto body class at the local technical high school redo the body, I drove it for about 5 years before I took it apart to transform it.
 
Hmmmm, Did the auto body class working on your car cost you anything? I hear they CAN do good work on stuff that appeals to them. Did they paint it too - how'd that come out?
 
Kenny - they kept it a whole semester - replaced body panels, straightened it, painted it...everything...& all it cost me was the price of materials! That paint was still shiny & new looking when I started redoing the body!
 
Wish I could have that kind of luck - shoot, I'd be tickled pink if someone would drop a TR frame in my driveway! Had a good one tracked down when the bottom dropped out of my budget! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif

<sniff> I'm ok now - guess I'll work on other things until I can restore my cashflow - and trust me, there's STILL plenty of other things to work on ...
 
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One Sunday afternon, Jerri & I pulled up to our driveway - it had been pouring the rain all day - after church & lunch to find that somebody had pushed a little wrecked '66 Midget off...there it sat, all dingy red with every panel dented, no top to protect what was left of the interior

...but, I still made several hundred off it - & never found out who dropped it off!

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Do you mean to say that they dropped it in your driveway? If so, that's funny! I wouldn't mind getting "presents" like that from time to time.
Who's to say that the car didn't get there on its own like how abused animals sometimes seem to know the location of animal-friendly homes? You must have a reputation with these cars!
 
William..it was pouring rain all morning that day..when we got home, the little Midget was sitting over in a corner of my drive with its nose pointing towards me...they had to back into my place & jockey it around a bit to park it where they did

& nobody ever called to tell me they did it!
 
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