thirt4
Senior Member
Here is a "blast from the past" so to speak.
I have had my avatar Coupe for many, many years now. It was always my good intentions to take it to the frame and rebuild it. At one time I actually thought that it would be a simple 2 to 3 month project. Oh yeah! I have awakened from that dream.
Anyway, back then, I started buying parts for that "little dream project" by the tons. I had no idea what I might be needing, just that I did not want to have to be searching for any parts as the build went along.
Well, more reality has struck me and struck me hard during this build , like it has already been over 11 months of building and I have actually had to spend a ton more money on other parts than I would have dreamed of.
Anyway, long story short, yesterday I finally started opening boxes of parts I had marked with a magic marker way back when. Three of the boxes had been marked as containing specific parts that are now needed at this stage of the re-assembly. As I was sorting through the parts looking for the best ones to use, out dropped a little business card.
Ya know whose name was / is on that card? It is the name of a now fellow Barner who I had never heard of way back in 2001. Heck, I had never even heard of Ford Barn back then!
The card bears the name of our good friend, Lawson Cox. I was tickled when I picked the card up off the floor and read his name.
I have found that in the world of cars, we are all just one big family helping out each other.
Thank you Lawson!!
In one of the other boxes, I actually found cash that had been returned to me by that seller also in 2001. I had never opened any of the boxes in all these years, and at one point almost sold them at a public auction as spare junk parts. No junk in these boxes. Just real, real nice window crank mechanisms. And... I still have many boxes yet to open!
I have had my avatar Coupe for many, many years now. It was always my good intentions to take it to the frame and rebuild it. At one time I actually thought that it would be a simple 2 to 3 month project. Oh yeah! I have awakened from that dream.
Anyway, back then, I started buying parts for that "little dream project" by the tons. I had no idea what I might be needing, just that I did not want to have to be searching for any parts as the build went along.
Well, more reality has struck me and struck me hard during this build , like it has already been over 11 months of building and I have actually had to spend a ton more money on other parts than I would have dreamed of.
Anyway, long story short, yesterday I finally started opening boxes of parts I had marked with a magic marker way back when. Three of the boxes had been marked as containing specific parts that are now needed at this stage of the re-assembly. As I was sorting through the parts looking for the best ones to use, out dropped a little business card.
Ya know whose name was / is on that card? It is the name of a now fellow Barner who I had never heard of way back in 2001. Heck, I had never even heard of Ford Barn back then!
The card bears the name of our good friend, Lawson Cox. I was tickled when I picked the card up off the floor and read his name.
I have found that in the world of cars, we are all just one big family helping out each other.
Thank you Lawson!!
In one of the other boxes, I actually found cash that had been returned to me by that seller also in 2001. I had never opened any of the boxes in all these years, and at one point almost sold them at a public auction as spare junk parts. No junk in these boxes. Just real, real nice window crank mechanisms. And... I still have many boxes yet to open!
