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Offline RusTy/SE

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Like Kid In A Candy Store
« on: September 10, 2008 - 11:55:03 PM »
  That's what I felt like after stumbling onto this automotive candyland. After my last stop installing a pc for my department's Veterans Affairs rep located downtown on 2 Avenue South between 12th and 13th streets in Birmingham, I was loading up the van (in the background of the first pic) to return home after a couple of days on the road when I look across the street to see this sweet looking blue Imperial convertible :o
  At the time there were a couple of fellows looking under the hood of a Durango parked next to the Chrysler so I walked over to see if I could take some pics. We spoke for a couple of minutes when another older man came out and was introduced as the person who really likes to speak Mopar :biggrin: He tells me of a nearby warehouse holding over 200 older Mopars including a nearly 20 year run of Chrysler 300 convertibles, a convertible Plymouth covering every year fron 1947 through 1969 (including a 63 Max-Wedge convert :faint:) and many other DeSotos, Chryslers, etc.
  Hey I take folks at their word and after seeing these vehicles today, who am I to balk??
  Anyways as we can tell by the few pics i took before my senses went numb, there's all manner of cars in various stages of work. Resto, Mods, Rods, Auto-Xers, exotics, 1920s and up. It was hard to take it all in :eek2: :eek2: The oldest is the 1925 Buick which I was told was one of two and the most valuable I imagine was the Supercharged Auburn Boattail Speedster, but I kind of liked the coupe in the process of being chopped, frenched, and lowered. Like i said, candyland.
  And yes, I do plan on taking the man up on his offer to see these hundreds of old Mopars and will certainly post those pics :thumbsup:
 
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2008 - 11:56:53 PM »
 :picture:
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2008 - 11:57:54 PM »
 :picture:
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2008 - 12:42:21 AM »
That's awesome, Russ!!! :cheers:  Thanks for sharing the photos. :2thumbs:
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2008 - 01:25:45 AM »
COOL!!!  Looks like you were in a car museum.  Thanks for posting and I'll be looking forward to more pictures.
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2008 - 07:20:15 AM »
 :wow:

thx for the pics, great!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2008 - 08:02:55 AM »
 :wow: very cool stuff

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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2008 - 09:47:52 AM »
wild  :2thumbs:

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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2008 - 10:06:29 AM »
Man those are cool!   :ylsuper:

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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2008 - 12:07:00 PM »
Wow!!  Amazing.  Must be nice to even be able to afford to store all that stuff.  That must be a fortune!!
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Re: Like Kid In A Candy Store
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2008 - 01:59:45 PM »
Hard to believe that's all in one shop.  :droolingbounce:  I can't wait for the warehouse pics. :hyper:
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