Exploring the Body Shop and Unique Projects

they looked it all over and uh Edith said, "Charles, what do you think of my car?" And he said, "Edith, it's the car for you." And they she was sold and Daddy just gave up and sold it to her. But, sure enough she it was too fast for her and she spun it around an intersection or two and she ended up damaging the front door on it and but it was a well-known car around town and this guy who uh grew up to become a dentist, I think he used to take her groceries out. And he hounded her for the car if she ever sold it let him let her sell it to him and somehow he ended up with I don't know if we sold it to him or if she sold to him directly. We followed it all through seven owners. Wow. And finally, uh we wanted to always wanted to buy it back. So, that's that car over there? No, it's a it's that car is now It was here. We kept it here until about a year ago. I sold it to a guy in Maine, and he's restoring it up there. That's awesome. But, we had a we had one other Mark Donohue car, 396 motor. I had a I had a '69 Chevy CST pickup truck with air, long bed, red and white. And uh some guys from Miami came and bought it. The man had rebuilt the motor. This is a Jeepster Commando. Um AMC bought Jeep in 1970. Before then, uh they were putting Buick V6s in their Jeeps uh and other Uh in fact, but uh AMC did furnish motors for uh Does that have a latch on it? I yeah, I think you have to lift it. Oh. Um AMC did furnish engines for International. Uh they in their Scouts, you you could find uh AMC six-cylinder in some of their pickups and Travelalls. But, I I don't know how many 401 motors I bought that were in that came out of International Travelalls and pickups. This is my last little Gremlin here. It's a '72. It's a six-cylinder with air. A lady in Dudley, North Carolina, I I was after her for for years. It was if she ever sold it to let me buy it. Finally, she came up and agreed to sell it. Here's old '66 Chevelle four-door, hit hard in the front. Did you just buy this for parts? Uh he bought it just uh somebody came up wanting to sell it. Uh We always thought we could use parts off of it, but I don't think we sold anything off of it yet. We've had it for 30 years. There's a couple tow trucks in here. What What did you use? We used to use them. We uh Daddy, he never really was a commercial tow man. We always use it for our own purposes. But when when the snow storms happened we would he would just charge them $20 to get them pulled out and everything. He never really…