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Old 10-03-2010, 12:25 PM   #1
JaggedEdge
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Not exactly a barn find... more of an attic find

Now here is a really cool collection of old parts and the story about them.
Five years ago I was working on an old truck in my driveway in Clinton. My neighbor across the street would come over regularly to check my progress. In his late 70's he had owned and operated a body shop for 40+ years. He offered to rent me a space in a building he owned. Next door in the building he had leased his previous business to another body man. I jumped at the chance.

Fast forward to today. Unfortunately my neighbor was taken by a heart attack in March. He was 83. His wife in ill health, the family decided to sell everything and move his wife to assisted living. All the tools, compressors, paint booth, ect were disposed of. The building housing the body shop and my rented space was sold to an investment company in Weatherford.
Working as a Union electrician, I find myself between jobs frequently, and do remodels on the side. The investment company hired me to clean out the building where the body shop was, in exchange for rent on my space. They want me to gut it so they can convert it to retail space. In the process we discovered the building had an attic space cram full of collected parts and pieces!
The owner asked me to get it all down and clean it up. I took pictures of the process and all the parts and pieces. The owner intends to post it on Craigslist or Ebay and sell it all in one lot. I recovered some excellent chrome, and some other parts for my truck, in exchange for helping them with the parts process.
I have posted pictures on Photobucket of the remaining parts. Check this out... it is really interesting.
http://s676.photobucket.com/albums/v...%20Collection/
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