Rough road ahead . . .

[JonB]

SNIP...

Fender supply? They had crews all over the country buying every one of them cars they could find. There were two model years used with the only difference being the tail lights. They kept a running stock of around 80 cars, whenever they "flew" one they salvaged whatever parts they could and the rest was off to the crusher. There were two fairly nice cars that were the main "picture car". Most all the rest of them were junk painted orange

They missed one !

The story:
My buddy is a vegetable farmer and paints cars in the winter. A guy bring this
Charger (via tow dolly) for a paint job, my buddy says before it's painted you
should have the frame/unibody repaired. My buddy doesn't weld frames.
My buddy says if you leave the car, park it behind the barn. The guy does that,
then says I'll find a welder and be back soon.

Six years go by, The charger doesn't get moved, it sits in the weeds behind
the barn that whole time, and has sunk in the sandy soil, up to the frame.
All that time and my buddy had never heard from the guy.

Then, the guy calls and says he is about to get out of jail and wants his car.
About a month later, the guy shows up and realizes he can't tow it with
a tow dolly and leaves without it.

A couple more years pass, the car still hasn't been moved since it was dropped
off. The Guy calls my buddy from Jail ...I guess he is a regular there?
He tells my buddy that his brother will come pick up the car with a trailer in a
couple days. I took these photos on that day it left (except the first photo,
was taken earlier that summer when the tall grass was green). It was a huge
ordeal to get that car out of it's sunken state and onto the trailer, it took
all of a saturday afternoon

 

[462]

Good story, Jon,

I can not understand why people lower pickups.

 

[RicinYakima]

I can not understand why people lower pickups.

So you don't need a step ladder to get in? Last year's Ram 3/4 ton. Think those are 19 inch rims.

 

[RicinYakima]

My Dad bought a 1957 International pickup for the farm because it had a 32 inch bed height. Then us boys could help load the produce boxes.

 

[462]

Yeah, Ric, jacked-up is the other end of the pickup spectrum I don't get.
Maybe lowered is for those wanting the cool '50s look (he did have flames on the front end), and jacked-up is for who have doubts about their masculinity?

Raising or lowering to accommodate usage requirements is completely understood, as I installed a set of Hellwig helper springs on my 4WD F-150 to tow a travel trailer.