Wednesday, May 09, 2007

A master plan can turn out to be unexpected























Couple of different pictures. I remember the master plan. The state where I grew up had a lot of small farms and on every farm it seemed was a corner where the old cars just sat. Cars from the 20's, 30's, and 40's. Those were the old ones. They were often rusty and seemed to be worthless. I figured it would be a way to make a lot of money if I bought them and fixed them up and sold them. What I should have done is bought them and found a field to move them into and just sat them there and let them sit for the next 50 years and then I could have just sold them off one at a time and also sold off the big field. Ya see the big field is the unexpected. Just like it seems a little unexpected to find the block with the a on it in a picture by some branches when I looked on the Duke City Blog today it it often the unexpected that makes it real interesting. The land would have without fail made money. A few of the cars might have. Then two one summer we moved irrigation pipe on a farm next to the Snake River. Somewhere we found a old Packard. It may have reminded me then about the "master plan" but it certainly does now. It was green. It had a "straight 8" motor. That mean when you lifted the hood you say a big long engine. The spark plugs were right on top on a flat place. One day one of them blew out through the hood. Another was loose. We found some heavy duty glue. Epoxy probably spelled wrong here. We glued them back in. Then we had a even worse gas mileage problem. Probably getting about 4 miles per gallon. The land owner we moved these big long heavy pipes for 2 to 3 times a day gave us one fill up a week at his yard gas tank. So we cut a hole from the truck on the Packard and ran a pipe so we could open up the gas place and fill two tanks with one fill up. The car was bought for about $50 and after the summer sold for about $75. Should have been in the Master Plan I suppose. As for the block and stick I find nothing about this picture to make it worth much. It is a little unexpected. A lot of the nice things that come along seem unexpected in time.

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