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so 6 weeks off work to recover no broken bone just a bruised stomach and a broke gold ring ,big ice storm hit the area ..go think for wood stove as we have not power for 3 weeks ..took me till the summer to find out what cause the dislocated hip ..it turns out to be the small 2 ton wheel jack that was at the back door,it came flying all the way froward and hit my seat dead center and ejected me out ..i only found that out when i pulled the seat out ..what a ride that was lets not do it again !!oh and i had no seat belts . it could have been worse ..the cop that came out told me that on the tursday night on the other side a guy and his girlfriend rolled there pickup truck there too ..i went back in the summer to see where i went in and i am glad that i went straight in ..if i was a foot to my left i would have dropped into a side drainage ditch and would have flipped upside down and probably not survived.
pic of my 63 and 94 ch mack
so step forward summer 2000 .i had to replace windshield and all body metal from firewall forward ,pick up most of it out of Springfield Missouri on a saturday morning at a wrecking yard for 200 dollars ..not bad deal ,but no hood ..i found that close to where i was living at the time for another 100 dollars.. put most of it back together and parked it .for 11 years ..i moved to belmont ontario where i started striping all the paint off ,and found all the rust that will have to be replaced with new steel ..fenders are done ,floor on both sides will have to be replaced ..roof has weak spots ,was thinking maybe lead work but have heard it may be not the way to go ,side panels bottom and wheel wells need to go also rear doors not to bad rear passenger door has a hole in the bottom section and had been bondo before ..inner wheel wells inside rusting around the bolts ,could be reworked maybe ..front roof inside just starting to rust small pin holes there ,not at all bad as most that i have seen never make it ...rear door pillar passenger side where the lower bolts go rusted out ..all door rubber and windows need replacing ..rear plywood floor still in not bad shape ,but could be given new life ..