early C8

[James E. Roy]

The rear body is laying on the ground and has some sizable trees growing around and through it. It is dinged up and has some chunks cut off. It is filled with 4 inches of leaf mold but it still has most of its bottom. The owner seemed willing to sell until he took another look at it and thought you'd never get it out of there in one piece so it wasn't worth his trouble. One of my body working friends who saw it thought I'd be further ahead to use it as a pattern and build a new one. Sounds expensive. My expert body friend tells me that there's nothing you can't fix and it would be way more practical to repair the original. I'm sure that with bracing, a chainsaw and a boom truck, it could be rescued. When spring comes... (wistfully)