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David, I'd love to see your car. Next time I'm back home I'll have to make some time to get over to Billings to see it, I'll remember to coordinate with you when the time comes.
Posted on: 2013/12/30 15:08
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Here are some more pictures of the car as it sat in the shed. The open side of the shed faces south, so the front of the car got a lot of sun. Amazingly, I replaced a valve stem in one of the front tires and it held air then, so 3 out of 4 was pretty good.
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Posted on: 2013/12/30 15:02
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So we aired up the tires, the fronts were both pretty rotten from the sun but would hold air for about 5 minutes. With my brother in law pulling the car using a chain to the bucket of a tractor, and my wife trying to steer without being able to see out (windows too caked to clean) we got the car out of the shed and up onto the trailer. We got it chained down, as the front tires kept going flat it was pretty much self-chocked. A little adjusting to level the trailer and we were good to go.
We had 360 miles to get back home and I wanted to get there in daylight, as the front of my little truck was pointed up a bit. Wasn't sure if my headlights would see the road in the dark. Attach file: (137.69 KB)
Posted on: 2013/12/30 14:19
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Anyone with tips for resizing photos taken with my iPad so that they work on the forum?
Posted on: 2013/12/30 1:28
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Well, inspired by BigKev's saga of the resurrection of his '54 Clipper, I figured I'd document a similar story that has just begun. This 200 has been sitting in an open shed on my in-law's farm since the 60's or early 70's, memories are hazy. It was bought new by my wife's great-grandfather and hasn't been licensed since 1963 about the time he died. After that her uncles used it to bomb across the prairie chasing foxes and cows, until it got parked for good.
I've had my eye on it for many years, but until my in-laws finally decided they'd never get time to bring it back I was last in line. Once it was decided to give me the car to work on, we had to move quickly before winter hit too much. The week before Thansgiving we took a rented car hauler trailer out to southwestern ND to get the car. Attach file: (66.66 KB)
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