Mr Nights got off work, and had himself dropped off to pick up his Hudson, and found it wrecked down the same side. Thinking quickly, he parked it back at the body shop, and went home and passed out. Well the afternoon brother decided he was gonna go grab it for a while, thinking no one would be the wiser, and go rod around in it. He told his brother (who worked afternoons) that he was gonna pick it up after work. Well, the Hudson got left outside so owner could pick it up in the morning after he got off work. The Hudson's owner worked nights at a large machine shop, and his brother (who was the father of the bodyman being told the story) worked there also, doing afternoons. He told one of my guys that the guy's uncle had wrecked his Hudson down one side, and he had repaired it. One day a previous owner stopped and started bs'ing with us. I had a small body shop back in the late '80's, in a building that had been a body shop since the late '30's. Finally, the kids broke out laughing, and the the guy began laughing so hard that he was helpless, that he had to lean against the car. The guy was really careless about putting the gas nozzle into the receptacle.Īll I had to do, was put my head out the window and say, "Hey, watch the paint!" The poor bugger didn't know if I was being serious or not, and he had the most tortured look I have ever seen, he was desperately trying not to laugh.
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This one day, I was taking the family with me on a trip, and pulled in to gas up at a full service station. I overhauled the engine and running gear, but left the body looking so bad that you could have left $60,000 on the front seat, and nobody would have looked in the car. I owned a VW bug, that had only been rolled once, designed to sit in the airport parking lot for weeks at a time without worry that anyone would break in to it, or attempt to steal it. The funniest episode for my family, relates to a story regarding my airport car.