At 7:55 AM -0400 10/18/02, C. Halsted wrote:
>don't know if anyone would be interested, but there's a guy in St.
>Petersburg Pa. who has a bucket loader he made from a '64 Datsun 1200 for
>sale. new brake mcyl, one new hydraulic ram, one good used, the rams and
>bucket work. used the engine, trans, steering and front axle. engine is rear
>mounted behind the driver, evidently there's 2 transmissions involved. he
>used to own a welding shop and built this. I tried to sum up what he was
>describing to me and when I said sort of like one of those road scrapers
>only without the blade and with a bucket up front, he said yeah kinda.
>anyhow, he says it runs good, just he's in poor health and he'd hate to send
>to the junkyard. would take a hundred bucks for it. his name is Charlie and
>his phone number is 724-659-5774. sounds like a cool toy. I'm just pretty
>much flat out of room right now. if anyone needs parts roadsters, let me
>know.....
>
>Craig Halsted
>roadsters in Virginia......NY.......Conn.......
>
Man, with what the annual floods do to our gravel driveway, I'd love
to have something like that. Couldn't afford to ship it to Texas
though.
-Marc T.
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