A big Thank You to Carl Stevenson, while his good deed was not directly Canadian Poncho related, it serves to underline what he does when he's not doing Canadian Poncho good deeds. After making a run to the Urban Goldmine a scrap dealer in Winnipeg with a load of his own scrap, Carl kindly came to our place and loaded a scrap 1/2 ton and headed back in again. Two trips and back to Morris by 12:30. That's after taking the truck and trailer to Timmy's (never crowded) and then to Costco for gas (wouldn't take money for gas).
Oh great, now people think I'm a nice guy. I'm almost embarrassed!
It was a fun morning. Hauling scrap is fun. Nothing like someone paying you $145/ton for stuff you don't want any more. My own load was just bits and pieces, driveshafts, manifolds, just plain JUNK.
See Johnnee??? I'm not such a bad guy after all...
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
And Jerry's good company. You don't need the radio on when he's along!!! As he likes to say "but I do go on.........", and he's right, he does!!!
This was the first time I've hauled a vehicle there where they didn't pop the windows out unloading it. The guy was super gentle. Forks under the scrap 1/2 ton, claw gently down on the roof and lifted it off ever so delicately. Usually when I've gone, the guys just do forks under, crush the roof with the claw blowing out all the tempered glass and they drive away, leaving me a trailer with 100,000 little pieces of glass on it.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
