I found an ad on CL for a 10" Southbend lathe. I was looking for a 10, even though I just bought a 9A. Anyway, I drove the hour to go check this thing out and as I pulled up in from of the house I told Joann maybe you better wait in the truck. The house was pretty run down, it had a house over a garage/shop. but it looked pretty ratty. There was a guy standing out in front to meet me, he looked rough. he had an old Harley tee shirt on and really, he looked like a homeless man. He was apologizing as I approached. He had been mistaken, it wasn't a 10 it was a 9... well I drove all this way, I still want to see it. So we went into the "shop"... Holy Crap!! The under side of that ratty house was a crowded shop, he had three small lathes and two bridgeport mills and a full blown motorcycle machine shop. There were bikes everywhere. Two real nice Confederates And I mean real nice. Many old restored antique bikes I'd say there were 25 collector bikes, and 10 hotrod bikes of different makes.
Here's the kicker. There was a car under a cover. I said "is that really a GT? He said 'well it ain't a Mustang" He pulled the cover off and there was a shiny yellow Ford GT. It was beautiful! he said he had it built special because he hates the stripes and had his painted without the stripes.
I'll bet that crazy old coot had 3/4 of a million dollars worth of vehicles in that ratty old "shop". I had left my camera and my phone in the truck so I didn't get any pics, and I didn't get a lathe either.
