OK, so now I’m the owner of the car, we still had to get it home. Terry and I were with his brother Paul and Paul’s son in a minivan. No way were we going to get the thing home with that. So, we head up north of Springfield to Lincoln, IL to get Paul’s dually and a 48’ trailer. Rather than transfer all our stuff to the truck (we had brought enough guitar gear to pack the minivan) We drove the minivan on the trailer and headed back down to Dave’s. Back at the car lot, we got the dually’s rear tires stuck in a ditch leading into the yard. We used the ramps off the trailer to get over the ditch. Ended up bending the crap out of them in the process.
Now we have the truck and trailer in the yard, ready to load the car on it. The tractor Dave was using to move the car around couldn’t get traction so we used the minivan (of all things) to pull the car on the trailer. Paul drove the minivan up to the Cuda nose to nose. We chained the two together and Paul backed the van onto the trailer pulling my new set of wheels along with it. Needless to say that was my first ride in the car!!! Since the ramps were bowed pretty bad one way, we flipped them over and used them to get back across the ditch, pretty much straightening them out. Now we were on the road to my house.
Got the car to the house. Paul backed the trailer into the drive way with the trailer spanning the street with the dually in the neighbors driveway. After unloading the car, the starter went out in Paul’s dually. After taking the starter out of the dually, my neighbor took Paul to the auto parts store to get a new one. After arriving with the new starter, it took 3 ½ hours to put in. Finally we realized that it was hung up on the positive cable. Starter now in place, Paul and his son head back to spring field.
It was a long day. We arrived at Dave’s to look at the cars at about one in the afternoon. Paul drove off at about 11 that night! Although it was a trying day to say the least with all the mishaps and unplanned events, we all can look back and laugh!