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jeff denton · 11-06-2004

Okay, now that we all know how to do it and we are getting the gigglies, may I share with you the story of how we used to steal motors from the county auto boneyard in Great Falls, Montana when we were teenagers?
We'd get in through the (downed, somehow) barbed wire fence between the boneyard and the Monster Hills (abandoned gravel pit) with my friend's dad's Brand New Chevy 4by4 pickup. Find an old Chevy car ("hey, a V-8!") and get it unbolted. Then, hook dad's handy-dandy tow strap to dad's sweet new truck and also up over the roof, down the side, under and into the frame of old chevy (with V-8). Lock in the hubs and go. Almost always results in an beat up car being dragged a long way (til it's no fun anymore) and then we'd unhook it and go back and look for the V-8 that fell out way back there. Four teenagers can easily get it into the pickup (sorry about the tailgate, but it's supposed to be a WORK TRUCK, right, dad?).
Now THAT is how you get the motor out of a car.

11-06-2004	#78 (permalink)
jeff denton former opel racer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: near some glaciers Posts: 2,863 Real Name: Jeff "Oh-Oh" Denton	Okay, now that we all know how to do it and we are getting the gigglies, may I share with you the story of how we used to steal motors from the county auto boneyard in Great Falls, Montana when we were teenagers? We'd get in through the (downed, somehow) barbed wire fence between the boneyard and the Monster Hills (abandoned gravel pit) with my friend's dad's Brand New Chevy 4by4 pickup. Find an old Chevy car ("hey, a V-8!") and get it unbolted. Then, hook dad's handy-dandy tow strap to dad's sweet new truck and also up over the roof, down the side, under and into the frame of old chevy (with V-8). Lock in the hubs and go. Almost always results in an beat up car being dragged a long way (til it's no fun anymore) and then we'd unhook it and go back and look for the V-8 that fell out way back there. Four teenagers can easily get it into the pickup (sorry about the tailgate, but it's supposed to be a WORK TRUCK, right, dad?). Now THAT is how you get the motor out of a car. __________________ No Opels were harmed in the filming of this movie. However two Mustangs, a Pinto, and a Capri were hospitalized. One Mustang was euthanized the next morning.