Worst MV purchase

[Marc Montgomery]

Two stories..1- yard ape- . a nice looking XKE hidden in the back a ways... drivers door was badly damaged.engine gone...but unibody seemed straight..(likely the operative word "seemed"? anyway I wanted the front clip and frame from firewall forward. Knowing yard apes,- i specifically said.at least 2-3 times. DONT MOVE IT- came back the next saturday with tools...and they had moved it to "make it easier for me"..with a forklift..and of course badly bent the very parts i was after....
That yard and most of the others of my youth..now looooong gone..sadly

2) in my earliest days of MV, looking for a jeep.. I traced a rumour...with great difficulty... to a barn near Oshawa..I cant even remember now...sadly... and low and behold there were at least 10 maybe 12 jeeps in various states of repair, but my guess from looking ALL restorable. The deal was take them all and give back one restored one to the owner...
Of course at the time, I knew no-one in the hobby (I thought I was the only nutbar who wanted old green stuff), and also no resources to move them out of the barn...and no place to put them or work on them.. It was an all or nothing deal and no way he would part with just one...I really do wonder whatever happened to them...I dont recall anyone in the hobby thereafter mentioning the barn full of jeeps..so I hope they weren't scrapped..