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Your explanation of how the farmer got the car on your trailer brought back some memories of how the salvage owner got my 49 P15 out from the back row. We figured he would have to move a bunch of cars. Not so. He had a crane, and he lowered the windows, passed a beam through, and lifted the entire car up and over the other cars. Put small creases in the inside top of the window frames, but otherwise, didn't seem to have damaged anything. The car also had the engine still in it, although no transmission. The front spindles had been torched off, and I don't recall how we got it off of my brother's trailer. He had some Ford spindles, and he welded them onto the Plymouth suspension to get it so it would roll. (I'm thinking he must have done that welding while it was on the trailer.) But you couldn't steer it at all - it was just welded up to go as straight as he could eye ball it. It was that way until after he (my brother) delivered it to me down in Oklahoma. My younger brother had a 53 Cranbrook he was scrapping out, so I installed the front suspension from that car onto the 49, so then it could be steered again. Sorry no pictures - I only had one of those cheap 126 point & shoot cameras, and didn't have a lot of money to pay to develop pictures. (We have it really easy now, with digital cameras. At least there's SOMETHING that's better now than in "the good old days".)

<blockquote data-quote="Neto" data-source="post: 566868" data-attributes="member: 13264"><p>Your explanation of how the farmer got the car on your trailer brought back some memories of how the salvage owner got my 49 P15 out from the back row.&nbsp; We figured he would have to move a bunch of cars.&nbsp; Not so.&nbsp; He had a crane, and he lowered the windows, passed a beam through, and lifted the entire car up and over the other cars.&nbsp; Put small creases in the inside top of the window frames, but otherwise, didn&#039;t seem to have damaged anything.&nbsp; The car also had the engine still in it, although no transmission.&nbsp; The front spindles had been torched off, and I don&#039;t recall how we got it off of my brother&#039;s trailer.&nbsp; He had some Ford spindles, and he welded them onto the Plymouth suspension to get it so it would roll.&nbsp; (I&#039;m thinking he must have done that welding while it was on the trailer.)&nbsp; But you couldn&#039;t steer it at all - it was just welded up to go as straight as he could eye ball it.&nbsp; It was that way until after he (my brother) delivered it to me down in Oklahoma.&nbsp; My younger brother had a 53 Cranbrook he was scrapping out, so I installed the front suspension from that car onto the 49, so then it could be steered again.&nbsp; Sorry no pictures - I only had one of those cheap 126 point &amp; shoot cameras, and didn&#039;t have a lot of money to pay to develop pictures.&nbsp; (We have it really easy now, with digital cameras.&nbsp; At least there&#039;s SOMETHING that&#039;s better now than in &quot;the good old days&quot;.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Neto, post: 566868, member: 13264"] Your explanation of how the farmer got the car on your trailer brought back some memories of how the salvage owner got my 49 P15 out from the back row. We figured he would have to move a bunch of cars. Not so. He had a crane, and he lowered the windows, passed a beam through, and lifted the entire car up and over the other cars. Put small creases in the inside top of the window frames, but otherwise, didn't seem to have damaged anything. The car also had the engine still in it, although no transmission. The front spindles had been torched off, and I don't recall how we got it off of my brother's trailer. He had some Ford spindles, and he welded them onto the Plymouth suspension to get it so it would roll. (I'm thinking he must have done that welding while it was on the trailer.) But you couldn't steer it at all - it was just welded up to go as straight as he could eye ball it. It was that way until after he (my brother) delivered it to me down in Oklahoma. My younger brother had a 53 Cranbrook he was scrapping out, so I installed the front suspension from that car onto the 49, so then it could be steered again. Sorry no pictures - I only had one of those cheap 126 point & shoot cameras, and didn't have a lot of money to pay to develop pictures. (We have it really easy now, with digital cameras. At least there's SOMETHING that's better now than in "the good old days".) [/QUOTE]

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