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Update on "the yard" story..

Discussion in 'A boatload of fun' started by EEE, Nov 11, 2005.

  1. EEE

    EEE Straight out of lo-cash!

    After going to bed at two, I get up again at six get going to drop of GF and to head out to the yard where the white centurion is with the large valve heads in it. Halfway there the car starts acting a bit funny, like losing power or somethng, yanks back and forth a bit. I pull over at an exit, and make it into a gas station where the car dies. I see a puddle of oil under it. I think, great that was it. A final meltdown of some major part. Anyway, it ends up being the fuel pump that has lost both its bolts and is just hanging there. Luckily I have two bolts in the trunk that are just what I need, don't ask me how that happened :Brow: .. Off again, and I get out to the yard only to see that the last car pulled for the crusher was the white "c". I run over to the crusher area where they have a bunch of cars stacked and on their side to get in the crusher, but no sign of it. I ask someone and he said it was pulled yesterday. He asks what I needed from it, and I explain that it was the heads I was after. He then points to this trailer that has 40 engines on it and says take a look there. I see it, but....... the heads and intake are gone. :shock: :shock: :shock: He comes back and I show him, and he's like ahh.. there were a set of heads that came off an engine, but we threw them back in the crusher. That was because I had taken all the bolts off, and when the lifter put its hook in the intake everything came off.

    LIKE BAD ****ING KARMA.... Yin for yang, this for that, quid pro quo etc.. You can have the posi, you can get your car fixed, but you can't have the heads. :ball: I just feel like reading a book and never worry about a damn car part again. That is max bs bad luck, and I start to think of the things I could have done to have saved them.. Skipped school, written note, talked to manager etc. but too late. If I would have left a bolt in for each head they would have still been connected to the engine...


    AAAAAaaahhhhhhhh.......................................... :af:

    At least I got the :3gears: , but it shouldn't have ended like this.
     
  2. 75Riv

    75Riv A.K.A. Harry Clamshell

    Sad story..... I was hoping for a better end.
     
  3. Dale

    Dale Sweepspear

    Bummer!
    Reminds me of the time I made arrangements to get a 425 out of a Wildcat, only to come back the next day to find they crushed the car with the engine in it!
    All because the guys running the crusher didn't think anyone would want such an engine! :af: :moonu:
     
  4. Junkman

    Junkman Well-Known Member

    That sucks! Reminds me of a 72 Riviera GS with a factory electric sunroof at a yard in Mulberry,Fla. The Riv ran,but had a rap in the engine.Full engine chrome package,posi rear,no rust or dents.Guy said 200. would buy it with title. I give him a hundred.Come back the following week with trailer and the other hundred,Saw the car crushed flat in a stack. The yard owner skipped town and had everything sqwashed.Lost a rare,desirable car and 100 bucks. I'm still POed about it,and that happened in 1987!
     
  5. GoldBoattail455

    GoldBoattail455 462 -> TH400 -> Posi

    Sorry to hear that Kimson. :( If it happens once, its likely to happen again. Im sure you'll find a set of stage 1 heads soon.
     
  6. D-Con

    D-Con Kills Rats and Mice

    Boy, that sucks. Maybe it was karma getting after you for skipping school?
     
  7. Rivman

    Rivman Senior Ottawa Buick Guy

    Sorta, . . . like my glovebox Kimson ? Bummer ! :Dou: :TU:
     
  8. Ken Mild

    Ken Mild King of 18 Year Resto's

    I have a 1972 455 out of a LeSabre. You need the heads? I've been trying to sell the whole engine, but nobody is interested in buying a whole 455 in the NY NJ metropolitan area (which is where the engine is).

    I'd be willing to part it out and ship the heads to you. What are the heads worth to you? I would have taken $300 for the whole engine, but not one interested party.
     
  9. EEE

    EEE Straight out of lo-cash!

    Thanks for the offer, but I'll play the waiting game here. The heads that are on the car are fine until I stumble on another set of stage 1's in three years.
     

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