BHA43
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I did this about 6 years ago. In the 70's a guy with a big car collection working to do a museum deal had some cars that were too good to just leave lay around in the weeds. He had an empty farm with a barn so he cleaned out the hay mow, (upper floor) cut a hole in the wall, laid some 40' I-beams down & using a tractor with a rope & pulley system to drag them up then sealed the barn back up. I own a salvage yard & towing co. & when the old guy passed & the family sold the farm they got a hold of me to help get them out.
This is the first daylight they had seen in 30 years. There were 13 total
First we screwed 3/4 plywood down to the weak barn floor, then rented a scissor lift flatbed truck & mounted an electric winch. I took an air compressor & most of the tires took air! We used floor jacks & Go-Jacks but most of them rolled free as it was dry up there & the brakes were not locked up. Once on ground level we transferred them to one of my roll backs & then to the ground! I was supposed to get my choice of 2. I chose the Dodge coupe & the Chrysler Convert. I ended up buying most of them! Sad to say I was going thru a Divorce & the time & they got tangled in the web & are all gone now. But she had them valued so high that after the D was over I was able to buy some of the better cars from another building that didn't require near as much work!
This is the first daylight they had seen in 30 years. There were 13 total
First we screwed 3/4 plywood down to the weak barn floor, then rented a scissor lift flatbed truck & mounted an electric winch. I took an air compressor & most of the tires took air! We used floor jacks & Go-Jacks but most of them rolled free as it was dry up there & the brakes were not locked up. Once on ground level we transferred them to one of my roll backs & then to the ground! I was supposed to get my choice of 2. I chose the Dodge coupe & the Chrysler Convert. I ended up buying most of them! Sad to say I was going thru a Divorce & the time & they got tangled in the web & are all gone now. But she had them valued so high that after the D was over I was able to buy some of the better cars from another building that didn't require near as much work!
