Thread: Ya just never know.........

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........................what the next email will bring.
Some of the longer term hands here might remember the light grey '36 Ford 3w coupe I had some years back. Well, as with all of them eventually, she went down the road just over 2 1/2 years ago to a good fellow down in Phoenix. After he got the car I hadn't heard much from him. I kept an eye out for pictures in various photo collections of rod events in that area, but never saw anything. Now, keeping track of former cars owned isn't high on my activity list, but it's fun to see one now and again. As a side note, I even found some pics of the '30 roadster I sent to Japan last year as it won a trophy at a big show in Yokohama near last Christmas. But I digress....

So, yesterday I get an email from Dave, the buyer of the '36 coupe, asking what size the tires were as they had no markings on them. I had gotten those from Diamond Back and apparently they grind off that info when the bond the white wall. Fortunately I had that info on file, wrote him back, and asked how he had been enjoying the car and what if any changes he'd made. This morning I got his reply. He'd been driving the car quite a bit, was at Hot August Nights a couple weeks ago even. However, while he was there the battery died. He said he'd never had a problem with it holding a charge before, but for the mean time they just got it up on a trailer and brought it home. He put a charger on it and all was well..............until.......... He said he was working out in the driveway when he heard a loud bang noise. He went around the end of the garage to see the coupe and an adjoining '36 pickup in flames! Holy crap! Something inside the battery must have failed and shorted causing it to blow and of course ignite. Fortunately for him it hadn't happened while he was driving the car. Insurance will help going forward and he plans to mostly replicate what he had.....which is why he wanted the tire sizes. Hated to see it, but it is what it is....