Crotches are gonna crotch. Veteran photographer Rick Guy shot pictures of the Scarecrow Cruise and Car Show in Madison Saturday for this website. Automotive beauties filled up Montgomery Street. A reader bragged about his son's find and restoration of a 1970 Mach I found in a barn. Naturally, one of the crotches just had to trash the comment but the reader brought receipts.
A reader commented on the story Saturday:Son N Law & I were there with his Mustangs. He has a '69 Fastback & he also brought the 1970 Mach 1 Barn Find we drug outta barn in Camden in August. 39 years inside 43K miles original condition. I worked on it two months to get it running & driving for the show. Had a pictorial documentation. It was quite popular & was a great show!Of course, the Crotch couldn't just let a nice comment pass:
Nobody in Camden ever drove a Mach 1. Been here 65 years. They probably rolled odometer back and had it put up for a couple years. Two months to get running means it’s probably no longer original.Thus earning this response:
Boy if you lived there for 65 years you must not get out much. Family name is Evans if I remember right, from a barn just a couple miles north from the 43 / 17 intersection. Fixed one flat, cleaned the whole fuel system, new fuel pump, carb overhaul & two stuck intake valves. Did the brakes. Did all the work with the car sitting on my trailer. 43K original miles. Purrs like a kitten. Matter of fact the original owners brother saw the car & said "Did That Car Come From Camden? That's My Brother's Car!" Thought the man was gonna cry when we started it up. You really shoulda came to the show before you post such stupid comments mister...
The reader sent the receipts to JJ. Check out the find.
Nothing like a know it all who knows nothing, right.
21 comments:
I always love it when a big mouthed prick gets knocked down. Thaks for the update. happily, the big mothed prick is now a butt hurt big mouthed prick.
Idiots are born every day. MS has its share of them.
Your neighbors always have and do things that you know nothing about.
Great stuff. Making a reminder to go next year.
Seems like everything is a pissing match on here lately.
That's a nice car and a great find. Nice barn, too!
That type of beat down happens here everyday. Some of ya'll just don't realize it....
The “know it alls” is what ruins the fun at Carshows. I have had grown men argue with me about my own antique vehicles and try to tell ME about my own car. I just laugh at them and roll on….
Car people and gun people are never wrong. Will argue over ANYTHING.
That is a nice car. Wish i could find an old c10 in a barn with no rust.
My Tesla Model Y will smoke any of these rusting boomer mobiles.
50 years from now you won't be reminiscing about the classic looks and sound of your Tesla.
@1:39 so would a 2004 civic. You’re missing the point entirely.
Yet they have cool cars, while yours is the Dork Mobile, and they will just flip you off and cackle while you recharge and they pass you over and over. The race goes not to the fastest but to he who keeps running.
I recognize the barn and the location checks out. . It belonged to Rickey Joe Simmons, a Jackson policeman who was killed in the line of duty in 1992. I can only imagine what it meant to his brother to see the car restored.
Great looking car! and what a find. Fantastic job on restoring it.
"Car people and gun people are never wrong. Will argue over ANYTHING."
Being a moderate fan of both, that is often true. One thing I managed to learn early on is that a fast and easy way to be absolutely wrong is to be absolutely sure about, well, damned near anything. Especially if it involves the phrase, "(Insert company name here) NEVER, EVER built/sold/authorized (insert damned near anything here)..."
It is especially true of mechanical things made prior to the 1980s by larger, market-leading manufacturing companies (or really, anything built or assembled by skilled or semi-skilled workers), and it just so happens that guns and cars fall squarely into that category.
"My Tesla Model Y will smoke any of these rusting boomer mobiles."
Not only "smoke" them, but go up in a blaze that would put a mere few gallons of gasoline to shame. And take the garage it is housed in, along with the house, along with it. Well, assuming you can find a place to charge it. Musk is a sharp guy, but I'm pretty sure those are bugs, not features.
I think hybrids are currently the best current (pardon the pun) daily-driver, commuter vehicle technology, but EVs and 1970 Mach 1s certainly have their place. Even for just pure enjoyment. Nothing wrong with that.
"I recognize the barn and the location checks out. . It belonged to Rickey Joe Simmons, a Jackson policeman who was killed in the line of duty in 1992. I can only imagine what it meant to his brother to see the car restored."
Thanks!
October 28, 2024 at 4:27 PM
1:39 - Your Tesla will also smoke your garage if you try to charge it.
BuT mUh TeSlA! Literally no one cares about them except Yankees and they/thems that still wear their Covid mask and drive like assholes.
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