junk yard find

[Don Jordan]

I have driven by this place for years and never had my camera so today when I took the old car for a ride I finally stopped and took some pictures.

The guy has 12 Nash Metropolitans, 2 tear drop trailers, some old air streams, and the Chrysler. I'm not sure of the year - some where in the 40s.

Just thought I'd share.

I have so much problems with pictures and then I get timed out.

I'll put them in the next post. sorry

[Don Jordan]

I don't know why but it takes me forever to do the picture thing. I'm just not that computer savvy.

[RobertKB]

Cool pictures and thanks for posting. Chrysler is '46 to '48. Tear drop looks good with the wires! Looks like an old-timer, too.

[Frank Elder]

Don, you are doing fine on the pictures. What I had to do at first was write down the steps and follow it to the letter! Many thanks to Mr. Adams for helping me muddle through it. Like most people who didn't have computers in HS, much less 1st grade like today, it is a hell of a process.

[BobT-47P15]

And---pictures take longer on dial-up than on dsl or high speed internet service.

[Flatie46]

Don, you are doing fine on the pictures. What I had to do at first was write down the steps and follow it to the letter! Many thanks to Mr. Adams for helping me muddle through it. Like most people who didn't have computers in HS, much less 1st grade like today, it is a hell of a process.

Please share the list, I've managed to do it a time or two but it's been a while.I'm much better with a wrench than a puter:D.

[dezeldoc]

Or you get an account like photobucket, aw heck click on this link and follow the directons, i don't know why this has not been made into a sticky here like on most sites.

http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=488

[realgonekatt]

That trailer is sharp with the old wires. I got this pic while out riding in the country the other day, next to the tracks (the bike is mine)

[RobertKB]

That is a good looking old Ford:eek:. Looks restorable or always good for parts.

[Don Jordan]

That shows you how silly we old geezers are.

Of course the Ford looks restorable - anything that rolls has the potential of being restored.

When I brought my Plymouth home I kept telling my wife "If you just squint your eyes, click your heels together, and say I wish I was a real boy." Okay I'm mixing fairy tales. But think of some of the buckets we've drug home saying "I think I can restore this."

I know guys that collect stamps and there is always room for one more. A friend collects guns and I'm amazed he's always getting something new. But cars!! I bought the lot next to mine just so I'd have a place to store parts.

[Young Ed]

Don there is a guy in the neighborhood who always stops by to talk cars during his jog. Few weekends ago while chatting he asked if we liked guns at all. So a few hours later he stopped over with his tommy gun. That thing was way cool! He showed us how to load the 50shot drum and how the military modified it for use in ww2

[Bingster]

That Chrysler appears to be a Windsor by the Deco wrap around trim on the front fenders.

[BobT-47P15]

I noticed in a pic or two he also has other interesting stuff sitting around, like some

Nash Metropolitans, a Caddy convertible.....and there could be more, I suppose.

I would say those are Ford wire wheels on that teardrop.

****Just went back and reviewed the first post - you did say there were a dozen Metropolitans.

[claybill]

i like that teardrop.....where is it? might take a look if in the midwest, or make a call.

bill.......claybill@netexpress.net

[knuckleharley]

That shows you how silly we old geezers are.

Of course the Ford looks restorable - anything that rolls has the potential of being restored.

Sadly,it is in better condition that any of my project cars,with the exception of my 32 Ford coupe.

[Don Jordan]

Claybill: sadly it is a bit west from you. I live in Acton, CA. It's considered the high desert. I'm about 50 miles north of Los Angeles. And I walked around the fenced in yard and could not find a contact number anywhere. In all the years I've lived here I've never seen anyone in the place.

When I was in Viet Nam I fired what they called a "burp gun" or some called it a "grease gun" - all it had was a wire stock, a short barrel, and a long magazine. It fired .45 and had an effective range of about 6 to 8 inches. The kick was enough that if you fired off a burst you'd be hitting the sky.

Never saw a Tommy gun in person. I think they were invented just at the end of WWI and I believe they didn't see much action until the 20s. Machine Gun Kelly and all that.

[B-Watson]

That Chrysler appears to be a Windsor by the Deco wrap around trim on the front fenders.

I was thinking an eight cylinder model, either Saratoga or New Yorker, judging by the length of the hood.

Bill

Vancouver, BC

[Young Ed]

Don you are right his was a model 21 that I believe he said was from 1921.

[knuckleharley]

Claybill:

When I was in Viet Nam I fired what they called a "burp gun" or some called it a "grease gun" - all it had was a wire stock, a short barrel, and a long magazine. It fired .45 and had an effective range of about 6 to 8 inches. The kick was enough that if you fired off a burst you'd be hitting the sky.

Never saw a Tommy gun in person. I think they were invented just at the end of WWI and I believe they didn't see much action until the 20s. Machine Gun Kelly and all that.

I ran recon with MACV-SOG in Laos and Cambodia (even ran a couple of missions inside VN),and I had a M3A3 "greasegun" with a suppressor for a "POW Snatch Weapon". Being in SF I could have anything I asked for by just asking for it,and I chose the greasegun because of it's slow rate of fire,it's accuracy,reliability,and the fact that it's big heavy 45 bullet hit with a lot more impact than the specially loaded subsonic 9mm ammo the other guys carried to fire in their Sten's and Swedish K's. You hit somebody in the kneecap with a 45,and they go down. I once saw a NVA hit 14 times in the chest with 9mm rounds fired from a Swedish K and still return fire before he dropped,and lost ALL my faith in 9mm rounds after that.

I started out with a Thompson,just because I could and because they were "cool",but it didn't take me long to get rid of that heavy SOB that fired too fast and I couldn't hit with. Super cool to own,but not so cool when you have to lug it around in addition to your regular weapons.

I love,love,LOVE greaseguns! I wish now I had bought one back when they were selling for $450 for a new one,plus the feral tax on machineguns. Never could justify spending that much money on something I would almost never shoot,so I lost out. That bastard Poppy Bush came along and closed the Machine Gun List and banned any new ones from being added. I talked with serving SF guys back then who told me tales of taking brand new greaseguns,Thompsons,Garands,and even Springfield rifles out to sea when they were deployed to Haiti,and dumping them in the deep ocean where they can never be recovered. That bastard Poppy also banned importing military weapons into the US with the same Executive Order he used to close the MG List and create the first so-called Assault Weapons Ban and magazine ban. This means even the 1911A1's were dumped in the sea that we either gave or sold to foreign governments.

I have said it before,and I will say it again. The only time I will EVER vote for the "lesser of two evils" again is if somebody named Bush is running against somebody named Satan. In that case I will vote for Satan as the lesser of two evils.

[Normspeed]

Don, that is a really neat teardrop. Love the side mounted spare and the wire wheels.

Realgone, is that a BSA Goldstar? I used to have a 49 BSA 500cc thumper.