Jason

"Carl" <cpncopper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:wmbvf.552$vf7.43@fe06.lga...
> Bill S. wrote:
> > joe wrote:
> >
> >> got in yesterday evening from about 5 hours of helping the business
> >> owner muck his shop out. the wall showed 22" of water. i'm
lucky.....the
> >> kr is stripped and the unloaded suspension made it ride just high
enough
> >> that the water just came over the door openings and barely touched the
> >> bottom of the trash bag covering the 428. he arranged for a high
> >> pressure washer and they washed the body. i'm ok with it. the boxes of
> >> paperwork, pictures, etc according to bob didnt get moved and are wet.
i
> >> just didnt feel like looking but i'll probably run down there tomorrow
> >> and dry what i can.
> >> there is a white mustang what looks to be about a '66 convertible very
> >> near completion that will have to have the interior stripped. there are
> >> other examples that i wont bore you with but the bottom line is i was
> >> lucky. it sucks to have most likely lost the photo record,the original
> >> sales invoice and all the restoration materials i loaned him but it
> >> could have been worse. others are in far worse shape than i. a question
> >> i'll have to ask in the next few days (in my opinion he has more
> >> important stuff right now even though what i have is his prized
project)
> >> is the location and condition of my upholstery. those items are at some
> >> external upholstery shop somewhere.
> >> someone asked about why the flood......we had 2 days of pretty hard
> >> rains from a pacific storm that dumped on us.
> >> as i write this (monday morning) it's snowing pretty hard.
> >> cp
> >>
> >> Wound Up wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Ouch. I hope things are better than you hope. Sorry to hear that.
> >>
> >>
> >> Good thing the 428 and the trans are high and dry. Best of luck with
> >> it; please keep us apprised of what happens.
> >>
> >>>
> > From experience, get the box of paperwork as soon as possible. Before
> > it dries out at all. Carefully peel the paperwork apart sheet by sheet
> > and lay it out flat on wax paper to air dry. Do not put it in the sun or
> > near a heating unit of any kind, just allow it to dry naturally. While
> > the paperwork will be crisp to the touch afterwards, it will be better
> > than if you let it dry in a clump and then tried to separate each page
> > from one another.
> >
> >
> > TS#15
> >
> >
> aside from the slight curling of the photos you would not even know the
> photos were soaking wet at one point. i was very surprised. the
> collection of mustang monthly's and cut articles i had saved over the
> past 17 years were beyond saving and went in the dumpster with the
> mustang assembly manuals i had loaned out. i had a decent collection of
> detailing information related to the kr but the actual photo record of
> this car as it was disassembled in intact.


Good to hear you got the photos back. I'm still kicking myself in the ass
for not getting doucumentation on my 69(plain jane though) till I had
already ripped it apart. Minor stuff but real important to the guy who owns
it.


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>>Jason
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