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Interesting.....

daveSanborn

daveSanborn

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Friday after work my son mentioned to me that he noticed a couple early FB's parked next to a garage out in the sticks while he was out riding his bike. He asked me if I knew where he was talking about..... I did, but hadn't been out that way in a LONG time.

Sunday we all jumped on the bikes and went for a ride. I made sure our path took us down this road and sure enough, two '65 FB's parked next to a garage. I got the owners name from a neighbor and gave him a call while we were eating a late lunch later that day. As it turns out, get this..... "he's going to fix them up one of these days". :rofl

His plan is to use both to piece together one.... as soon as he retires.... which as it turns out.... he did, two years ago. :rofl

I learned from the neighbor that gave me this guys phone number that "at least 50" people a month stop to ask about the FB's. I somehow doubt this, but I also learned that the owner has cancer. Bummer for him.

One of the cars is fairly complete.

The other is mostly nothing but a shell with doors/all glass/trim. The cowl is shot, but it otherwise looks fairly salvagable.

I focused my attention on the shell car while talking with the owner. He said I could come get the car as soon as he was sure he needed nothing off of it to complete the other FB..... for free.... but I'm guessing that this day will never arrive. He'll likely die before he ever does anything with either of these cars.

I'll keep bugging him every couple of months and let you'all know how it turns out.
 
If you can, get him to put it in writing that you can have the car. Then, if/when he passes, you have a chance.
 
you should offer to get the parts off the shell and put emm on the complete one for him say you wanna start building one for your son or smthn
 
on a much smaller less interesting scale, I was cruisin in my Stang a while back and this guy came up to me to talk. We got to talking about mine, then his and so on. Eventually I mentioned something about needing or wanting or looking for PS parts to which he said he had some laying around. I told him where I lived and he said he would get back with me. Well I figured I'd never see him again but one day he approached me in WalMart or something and said he hadn't forgot about me or the parts. Well I didn't give it much more thought. Several months later I was working in the yard and here he comes on his motorcycle, wife in tow and says the parts are laying in the driveway at his house and I can come by and see if they are what I need. So I give him time to get home head over there and sure enough, like he said, it's there. We strike a deal and I load them up. I would have never guessed he would come thru, random stranger and all but many months later I had them. Moral of the story, I forget my point. Oh, yeah... Keep trying Dave it could happen!
 
Keep trying Dave it could happen!
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Well.... I'm not going to hold my breath, that's for sure. The thing is I really don't need another thing to do around here....

My boat trailer is broken.... I snapped the rear crossmember off when I hit a pot hole.... the broken piece is now on order.... but to remove the damaged piece I had to place the boat up on jack stands to get the weight of the boat off of the trailer..... and all of the removed pieces are laying around waiting on this crossmember to be manufactured/delivered.

I just bought another utility trailer..... this one a 6x10.... perfect for hauling a few bikes.... but there's some light surface rust on the steel and the wood floor needs to be replaced. I have this positioned adjacent to the immobile boat/trailer where we started sanding it this evening. Hopefully the weather will hold long enough for us to get it sanded/painted and a new floor installed as we plan on trailering the bikes.... at least 2, maybe 3 of them to the Ocean City, MD rally in a few weeks.

With my land clearing project winding down, I'd like to start working on an addition to the shop. I know that I talked about this before, but since we purchased the adjacent vacant lot it has opened up a whole slew of new possibilies. For now we're thinking of adding a 16x20 "room" onto the side of the exisiting building. The room will be accessable from the outside or through the shop via standard 36" entryway doors. This "room" will be a more civilized extension of my man cave. Complete with fully stocked bar, kegerator, pool table, dart board, wall hung flat screen and a stripper pole (for the drunk girls to play on). Kind of like my own "bar". I'm getting tired of spending $100 every fri/sat night. Heck, I might eventually install a small parking lot and get a beer license (pretty easy to do around here) as my property isn't under any zoning restrictions.

If the '65 FB becomes available.... "A" code car BTW.... I won't turn it away, but I won't lose any sleep if it never materializes. Making the matter worse is there is a buddy of mine down the road a spell that sandblasted one of his 65 FB's approx 15 years ago and then left it sitting outside. There's not much left to this car that rust has not consumed. However, he's stored all of the disassembled pieces to the car in the rafters of one of his buildings and they look just about ready to install.... albeit a little bit dusty. He's told me on numerous occasions that I could have both the rotted shell outside and all of the non-rotted removed pieces anytime I had the energy to come get them. The removed pieces would fit nicely onto this "we'll see if it becomes available" newly found A code FB.

Too much to do around here right now to even start worrying about another project car.
 
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