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Re: What would you have done?
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Posted by jubilee johnny on April 16, 2007 at 07:40:48 from (12.219.208.94):
In Reply to: What would you have done? posted by IaGary on April 16, 2007 at 05:29:02:
You did the right thing. I have been on the other side of that more than once. Most of my projects have been special because of them being family heirlooms. Back in the late 70's a collector bought my grandad's 1946 jd d. Just last year my cousin accidently came across the tractor, which the collector had not restored. It is still in very restorable shape. The guy gave it back to our family and my cousin passed it on to me. You can imagine my excitement! On the other side of that, after my grandad passed away and my mother and her sisters had a machinery auction, one of the sisters removed an 860 Ford powermaster from the auction at the last minute for herself. For nearly ten years it has set in pieces in an old shed with her living several hundred miles away. Sometimes relative can be worse in these situations than anyone and it ends up everybody loses and creates potential hard feelings, too. I'm glad to hear what you did.
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