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lugerholsterrepair · 10-08-2009, 12:36 AM

Ron, Now that's some car! Spoke wheels! That would be a labor of love to bring it back to life...Nothing like fond photo's of our youth to make the memories come alive.

My first car was a 47 Chevy. Paid $65.00 for it and drove it for years.

Oddball story..I was driving home to Colorado when I was 16 and while I was coming up a high mountain pass my left front tire caught on fire from a bad wheel bearing. I got to the top and there was a little store up there. I stopped and wondered what I was ever going to do about my problem. I needed a new wheel bearing and was not likely to find one for a hundred miles. I bought a soda and was wandering around the parking lot..I looked over the side of the mountain and down in the bottom of the creek was a wrecked car upside down. I took a second look and it was a 47 Chevy! I grabbed my tools and went down, took of the front left wheel bearing, put it on my car and continued on accross Colorado!

Jerry Burney

10-08-2009, 12:36 AM	#48
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,133 Times in 1,439 Posts	Ron, Now that's some car! Spoke wheels! That would be a labor of love to bring it back to life...Nothing like fond photo's of our youth to make the memories come alive. My first car was a 47 Chevy. Paid $65.00 for it and drove it for years. Oddball story..I was driving home to Colorado when I was 16 and while I was coming up a high mountain pass my left front tire caught on fire from a bad wheel bearing. I got to the top and there was a little store up there. I stopped and wondered what I was ever going to do about my problem. I needed a new wheel bearing and was not likely to find one for a hundred miles. I bought a soda and was wandering around the parking lot..I looked over the side of the mountain and down in the bottom of the creek was a wrecked car upside down. I took a second look and it was a 47 Chevy! I grabbed my tools and went down, took of the front left wheel bearing, put it on my car and continued on accross Colorado! Jerry Burney __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."