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Well I need to let all know that this is a true story. I am located in Lancaster County Penna. Now the cliche of , Found it in a barn applies.
Back in 75 I was a young buck crusing around the country side one Sat. morning. I was tooling around with a friend in VW bug slide rag top. We stopped by and old gas station that had a Coke machine to quench our dry mouths. As we were sitting on the roof looking out into the beautiful scenery of Ephrathas farmland I spied a chrome frame sticking up out of the tall overgrowth of milkweed and basically thorned weeds 30 yards out. Now I said to myself, What could possibly have such a low profile that showed chrome . Curiosity took hold and I wandered out into the field brushing away the brambles and dodging the numerous grasshoppers flying all about me. Blood flowing from cut legs and arms , shirt torn I came upon a red 2 door car, no top but a well worn canvas tarp trying to cover up this mystery car. Well I pulled it off and found myself looking at another kind of snapped down tarp of sorts. Pushining aside the heavy growth to get acces to the cover i pulled up and you gussed it, it tore away so easily it caused me to fall backwards into a ground hogs hole and down I went. When I looked up I saw a red triumph tr-3 and as I got up I was so excited with my find that I failed to realize I also uncovered a wasp nest and these guys were not pleased with me intruding on there classic.Well it became my car and first real restore project for a late teen.Never did I think lady luck would ever befall me like that again but this week I went to see some puppies out in the country. My intent was to look at the pups only and get back to work pronto. Well across from thisfarm homstead was another dairy farm with outbuildings and a bearded man at work in the coral area. As I was pulling away onto the road I detected in the outbuilding the lines of a car,Volvo amoungst all the farm gear stored. The breaks went on and I pulled up this lane and called out to the man,Can I look at your car?I could tell it had not been used for some time as I got closer and he says to me,its for sale but has some problems so I parked it. Well I was staring at a gun metal blue 940 gle sedan under all that barn dust and farm debree field of droppings. No tarp over this thing. Well I said I would come back and he gives me his Cell number, I would have bet the farm the last thing this guy would have would be a cell phone but he did, says us dairy farmers are rareley in the house . Well its mine now and I am the best husband ever for I gave it to my wife.Talk about cleaning up great only real flaw is were something called a pringle hook dented the license plate area. Shes now driving the 940 and I got the 240 5 speed Much jollification!!! Lovin the Red Brick Mike
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