Whatever happened to the concept of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness? I ran into a similar problem here in OKC, but once I moved it
into the back yard, they left me alone here. They also don't mind if you
park it in the garage. That's what all my neighbors are doing with their
projects. One is rebuilding 2 AD's and another is restoring a T-Model.
Are we not in reality doing a service to society by "recycling" old
unwanted junked vehicles? I'm also sure that our efforts will be greatly
appreciated 100 years from now by historians and others in search of
early 20th century vehicles.
Good Luck to you friend,
Larry
'51 3100 5 Window
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:22:10 -0700 jrdorsey@strato.net writes:
>In my town it is almost impossible to legally own a "ole-truck". There
>is a small group of pinched face old fa*ts that dislike any older
>vehicle. Unfortunantly they are in positions of power- mayor, city
>councilwoman, rich behind the scenes power broker, etc.
>
>Citizens can go to council meetings, protest, write letters to the
>paper, and nothing matters, these people get what they want.
>
>First they made it illegal to own an inoperable, unregistered vehicle.
>That wasn't enough, there were still old cars and trucks around.
>
>Then they made it illegal to own an inoperable registered vehicle. You
>might have tags and insurance, but if it wouldn't start and drive it
>was
>illegal. That still wasn't enough to get rid of the old stuff.
>
>Then they gave it a time limit. 72 hours. If your vehicle was visibly
>inoperable for 72 hours, you faced a $200.00 a day fine. How many
>major
>repairs can be done in 72 hours? It can take longer than that just to
>get parts, and forget it if any thing had to go to a machine shop.
>They
>cited me for changing my king pins, because the shop had them for too
>long. But that wasn't enough, there were STILL some people with these
>da*mmed old vehicles.
>
>So here is the latest: If a vehicle is not MOVED for 72 hours it can
>be
>DECLARED inoperable. Then they can force you to have it removed or a
>$200.00 a day fine. REMOVED from the city, not just moved around. The
>law specifically says it can't just be moved within the city.
>
>Now I have to be sure I move Both my old trucks at least every two
>days,
>or I could be forced to get rid of them. I live one block from city
>hall, I am defenantly on their list to watch.
>
>Now I check my e-mail and find the same sort of cr*p going on here.
>Sub-lists so the TF guys don't have to listen to those Da*mmed old Art
>Deco guys, and the rodders don't have hear about stockers.
>
>WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!! Everyone here is so
>concerned
>that they don't have to hear about anything besides their own special
>interests that they are willing to destroy the group. Don't you
>realise
>that 90% of what applies to an Art Deco truck applies to a TF as well,
>most of the difference is Sheet metal!
>
>Miq, I propose a compromise insted of nixing "Eb*y" could you nix the
>phrase "Interesting item on eB*y"? That would eliminate the forward
>posts from eB*y which are what I belive are really the bone of
>contention here, otherwise any thing that mentions eb*y will be
>bounced.
>Such as if I were to write about my 1100 mile road trip driving my '52
>GMC open cab fire truck back from Pennsylvania through tropical storm
>Dennis, and I say that I bought it on an eb*y auction, Boom no story.
>
>We are all ready up to our necks in petty ass rules in the outside
>world, lets not do that in here.
>
>Back when I had time to search eb*y (and it takes 2 hours to properly
>search for AD truck parts) I would put together about one post a week
>of
>unusual things I thought listmembers might be interested in, but I
>wouldn't forward each auction because it would clog up the list. It
>wasn't hard to do and it helped listmembers find needed parts, and
>thats
>what we are really here for is to help each other.
>--
>John
>"49-50-54-57-79-95" Chevy 3800 Panel
>'52 GMC 640 FMC Firetruck
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
>1959
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