Old Tin Near Grandma's

[Neverdone]

So I went to my Grandmas yesterday, on the way I passed a house that I have drove by for many years. It has always had a pile of old tin around it and I thought I would snap a few pictures.

I few years ago there used to be a second 2dr wagon sitting by the one in the last pic there then one day it was gone.... Don't know where it went. Missing from the pics is a 70 Chevy C10 and a 57 more door Bel Air......

I have thought numerous times about stopping and talking to the gentleman about his tin and if he would want to sell any, but my Grandpa knows him and says that he can be quite the @$$&^%$##

Don't know why but I really want the boat......

 

[21willys]

I've had people tell me the same thing about others. And then I end up buying something from the alleged jerk. The guy may be holding a grudge about something that your grandpa don't even know anything about. I wouldn't hesitate to stop. The most he can do is chance you off.

 

[RPM]

I'd stop and ask, no harm in asking. You never know he just might be in a great mood the day you stop by and you can get a great deal. If you don't stop, you will never know.

 

[42chevy]

Stop and ask. "The faint heart never wins the fair maiden." That was the answer I got when asking a friend of my dad's to drive his Cobra. He said no but gave me the above quote.

 

[Neverdone]

I really should stop and ask about it, but right now I am out of places to put stuff. The wife and I are looking for a new home right now, something with some property so I can have a shop a big shop and stuff. After that happens I will be aquiring more projects I am sure! Who knows though maybe gramps would let me drag the boat down the road to his barn for a while........... Anybody have any idea what it is??

 

[earthman]

Hi,i was wondering if you wanted to sell the _____,i have cash.

 

[Torch]

Hi I'm so and so down the road I was wondering... sell...?
NO? don't want to sell how about some tradin... got work?

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Boat? What boat? This thing hiding in the weeds?

Don't know why but I really want the boat......

Anybody have any idea what it is??

Hard to tell from that pic, but here's a couple possibilities...

'58 Bell Boy.

'58 Glastron Seaflite. (I want one, too!)

Now, you HAVE to go back and take some more pictures at the very least.

Knock, knock...



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[donsrods]

I retired from the boat business, and I can tell you, most old boats are just OLD BOATS. Even if it is fiberglass and it has been sitting out in the elements for a while, it is shot. Fiberglass does dry out and start delaminating, not to mention the wooden stringers and bulkheads that are probably either rotted away or eaten up by ants and other bugs. I've seen fiberglass so far gone that if you touched it you got glass slivvers in your fingers.

If any old boat has a chance of surviving it is one that was stored in a protected garage, not one that is sitting outside like that one.

Don

 

[Neverdone]

Boat? What boat? This thing hiding in the weeds?
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Yes Crank thats it.

Yea I should go back and take more pics, and maybe knock on the door, whats the harm right? The thing is that it is near Grandmas house which is about 90 miles away and I don't get down there much right now. But that stuff has been sitting there as long as I can remember so it's not like it is going anywhere. I would just have to make sure not to take the wife along. At least for that trip......

I retired from the boat business, and I can tell you, most old boats are just OLD BOATS. Even if it is fiberglass and it has been sitting out in the elements for a while, it is shot. Fiberglass does dry out and start delaminating, not to mention the wooden stringers and bulkheads that are probably either rotted away or eaten up by ants and other bugs. I've seen fiberglass so far gone that if you touched it you got glass slivvers in your fingers.

If any old boat has a chance of surviving it is one that was stored in a protected garage, not one that is sitting outside like that one.

Don

Yea it probably is junk, but it's still cool to see. From the road it looks like it could be aluminum, but it could be that it used to be grey and now just has that look

 

[donsrods]

Aluminum might be a different story and savable sometimes, but they also can have issues, like cracking, especially around rivits, and leaks, also around rivits. The way you can tell is to fill the boat up with water just slightly past the waterline and see if there is any seepage anywhee on the outside of the hull.

Don