I am being kicked out of my storage garage I use to hide things I don't want to look at. It is about 10 minutes from the house and reasonably priced for Toronto . Winter tires for 4 cars (Change the whole families tires as a Dad duty) My BMW wagon, an 84 Honda VF500 parts bike that is complete but hideous. and boxes of stuff. Old stuff that I was tired of tripping over. Well the remedy was to take a lot to the dump I have been paying to store and retrieve the other stuff back to my crowded city house. Step one was figuring where to put it. For years I have stored car parts under my porch at home. . Don't go under there , as it is old, dark, inhabited, and under me, thus out of sight. Anyway, it has a lot of old Subaru parts, used to have a lot of old Corvair parts.
Day 1 was to clear it of stuff. First thing I found was a dead Black cat. It was very light, I did not look at it much and is now mixed forever with the leaves it came out with. Unsettling.
Step 2 was to borrow a friends old diesel van. Filled it to capacity with my crap from the garage. Unloaded at home, then filled it to almost capacity for my trip to the dump. The steel recycler gave me money for once ($45cdn, so that is a lot of steel)
Spent the last two days sorting out what the hell was in those boxes. Found an unopened letter from 1997 where I was nominated for a Gemini award (Cdn TV) for best sound in a documentary series!
Found some great letters and lots of old photos. They were intact despite a very gross mouse infestation, especially in my video tapes. Took two days to seperate the keepers from the refuse and sort it.
Found the ad for this car I bought in 1993 taped to the back of a cherished water ski photo. I was pretty excited the day I got this, and it was my pride and joy till it was stolen from the underground parking lot of the Sheraton hotel in Montreal. Figured out who stole it but the police did nothing. I think I paid about 2 thousand less than the asking price for the car and when the insurance company offered me book value ....I shut up and took the $23,000. I got the car minus the stickers but with all the race car parts. Rims, spares, six point cage, Sach Group A front struts, OMP seat. It was driven by Jeff Pabst and Richard Spenard (WHo was Villeneuve's driving coach).
Despite being a crashed and repaired endurance racer, it never hiccuped. it had 13,000 race track Kilometers on it and ran perfectly till it was stolen at 60,000. It was one of the very first VR6 Corrados produced (*Serial number 00069) and probably the only one in North America without a sunroof.
What is your favourite from the past?
Moving winter tires into a crawl space under the porch is not something I hope to do forever (twice a year)
Day 1 was to clear it of stuff. First thing I found was a dead Black cat. It was very light, I did not look at it much and is now mixed forever with the leaves it came out with. Unsettling.
Step 2 was to borrow a friends old diesel van. Filled it to capacity with my crap from the garage. Unloaded at home, then filled it to almost capacity for my trip to the dump. The steel recycler gave me money for once ($45cdn, so that is a lot of steel)
Spent the last two days sorting out what the hell was in those boxes. Found an unopened letter from 1997 where I was nominated for a Gemini award (Cdn TV) for best sound in a documentary series!
Found some great letters and lots of old photos. They were intact despite a very gross mouse infestation, especially in my video tapes. Took two days to seperate the keepers from the refuse and sort it.
Found the ad for this car I bought in 1993 taped to the back of a cherished water ski photo. I was pretty excited the day I got this, and it was my pride and joy till it was stolen from the underground parking lot of the Sheraton hotel in Montreal. Figured out who stole it but the police did nothing. I think I paid about 2 thousand less than the asking price for the car and when the insurance company offered me book value ....I shut up and took the $23,000. I got the car minus the stickers but with all the race car parts. Rims, spares, six point cage, Sach Group A front struts, OMP seat. It was driven by Jeff Pabst and Richard Spenard (WHo was Villeneuve's driving coach).
Despite being a crashed and repaired endurance racer, it never hiccuped. it had 13,000 race track Kilometers on it and ran perfectly till it was stolen at 60,000. It was one of the very first VR6 Corrados produced (*Serial number 00069) and probably the only one in North America without a sunroof.
What is your favourite from the past?
Moving winter tires into a crawl space under the porch is not something I hope to do forever (twice a year)
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