Well, I finally have a bit of good news to report related to my heater core problem. I was in Kerrville, TX today on business and had stopped at a local upholsterer to see about getting my seat recovered and found them closed for the holiday weekend. Next door to it I spied an old wrecker in front of a house whos back yard looked like a wrecking yard. Obviously thinking that he might have some old iron back there I approached a man scraping paint off the roof of a race car he was building. I asked him if he had any old trucks back there and he said he DID have last week, but sent two to the scrap yard crusher. I was sick!!!!!!!! He softened the blow by saying that the '49 was pretty rusty and the '50 was not much better. He asked me what parts I was looking for. He then told me that the salvage yard had cut off, and had saved, the front clips of both trucks. The fenders and running boards were saved and that he might be able to get them for me. Then I told him I was *really* looking for a good heater core for the Deluxe fresh aire heater. He hesitated and said that while he was moving the truck to the flat bed truck to be hauled away that a core for that very kind of heater fell out of the truck. He had kicked it up in the brush thinking he would keep it for the copper in it. He promised to bring it back to his place and I'm to go by and pick it up...FOR FREE... next time I'm there in 3 weeks.
I just hope it's in good shape, but yes, I guess we all get lucky once in a while. What a way to end a long week!!!
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