earthman
Fascinated by rolling objects!
...Two or three times a week i drive an end dump west on US 60 on my way to Yuma. 45 miles east of Quartzsite is a tiny town called Wenden. Big farms there with water from somewhere.
...I have been trying to remember to slow down when i go thru so i can stop and look at some 40's trucks and 50's cars that are sitting around a metal farm building just off the road. Today i got stopped, and started looking thru the fence. A friendly woman came out of a snowbird trailer and i asked if anything was for sale. She said the old fellow that owned them was never going let anything go but she took me inside to where THE GOOD STUFF WAS STASHED!
...The first room had 3 sixteen cylinder Caddys covered in dust with complete original paint and interiors. A coupe and two sedans. One of the sedans had 4600 chauffeur driven miles! The next room had a 20's buick sedan. 20's Chevy roadster and another roadster i couldn't identify.
... The last room had a '57 Chevy, a 40's Chrysler, a 20's Willys-Knight with an unbelievably rare third headlight option, AND ANOTHER 16 CYLINDER CADDY! This monster was the original stretch limo. You would have to get up and walk from the back seat to the front. That's 4 Caddys for a total of 64 cylinders.
...Back outside where i couldn't see from the road under a roof was a 20's Hudson roadster and a couple more i can't remember. Everything here was covered in dust, hadn't moved in years and won't until the old pack rat dies.
But it was a thrill to just to look at it and dream.
...I have been trying to remember to slow down when i go thru so i can stop and look at some 40's trucks and 50's cars that are sitting around a metal farm building just off the road. Today i got stopped, and started looking thru the fence. A friendly woman came out of a snowbird trailer and i asked if anything was for sale. She said the old fellow that owned them was never going let anything go but she took me inside to where THE GOOD STUFF WAS STASHED!
...The first room had 3 sixteen cylinder Caddys covered in dust with complete original paint and interiors. A coupe and two sedans. One of the sedans had 4600 chauffeur driven miles! The next room had a 20's buick sedan. 20's Chevy roadster and another roadster i couldn't identify.
... The last room had a '57 Chevy, a 40's Chrysler, a 20's Willys-Knight with an unbelievably rare third headlight option, AND ANOTHER 16 CYLINDER CADDY! This monster was the original stretch limo. You would have to get up and walk from the back seat to the front. That's 4 Caddys for a total of 64 cylinders.
...Back outside where i couldn't see from the road under a roof was a 20's Hudson roadster and a couple more i can't remember. Everything here was covered in dust, hadn't moved in years and won't until the old pack rat dies.
But it was a thrill to just to look at it and dream.