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Field to Freeway

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:34 am
by peter frost
I was actually on I-80 when I spotted it, my 5th of this vintage, the silloette I can spot 5 miles away. 28-32 are my years. Can't get away from those running boards and those big fenders and the big headlamps.
This one in Montana I got from a cowboy for $250.
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I paid him on the spot and said I'd come back for it. When I did he asked me. "I coulda said $500. and you woudda said yep, just as fast huh?"
"You coulda said a grand, and I would have yes as easy as I did the two fifty." Since he had previously been paid I gave him a Jackson and told him to go celebrate at the bar on me, cause now his field is clear.
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I still know where some of these lie in case I ever get back to the mainland.

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:16 am
by Mark B
You have great eyes! I-80 doesn't come anywhere near Montana! Maybe I-90?

Mark

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:59 am
by peter frost
been almost 20 years could be !-90, now you got me wonderin hold on...

yep you's right I-90 between Butte and Missoula actually.

Used to cross I-80 mostly that goes thru Colo. hey it's been awhile since I've been out there on them there freeways. I think the highest speed limit in this state is 55. And we don't have any freeways here on the BI.

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:18 am
by Mark B
peter frost wrote:been almost 20 years could be !-90, now you got me wonderin hold on...

yep you's right I-90 between Butte and Missoula actually.

Used to cross I-80 mostly that goes thru Colo. hey it's been awhile since I've been out there on them there freeways. I think the highest speed limit in this state is 55. And we don't have any freeways here on the BI.
80 cuts through Wyoming and Nebraska. 70 goes through Colorado and Kansas. 80 is the preferred route for me, much easier crossing the rockies on 80 than the 70 through Colorado. The trade-off is; Colorado is prettier than Wyoming.

Mark

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:22 pm
by Wayne Bus
I collect vintage thunderbirds, 1958-1971...I have your same ability, stange to be able to do that, spot a few inches of a car in buried field brush, and at great distance, quess what it is, drive up, be right, knock on the door, have had them GIVE me the car(s) ! ...to get it gone...nothing like it.