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Day 2 for me was Friday.
Ron and I were up at 6:30 to go get the 18' Budget box truck and trailer to
get the Witness car from Newark NJ. So we hop on over to the host hotel by
7:30 to gather Brian... well, as it seemed we woke the hibernating Bear...
who was still on Pacific time. Would have made a great picture but I
wouldnt have wanted to remove my Camera from where it would have been had I
taken the shot. So we went back to gather Ron's new 71 Fastback and bring
it out to his house. When we were done Brian joined me and we set out for
Newark.
Trip out (about 3.5 hrs) went well until we were to turn onto the Garden
State Parkway... and I should have remembered it was cars only, no trucks!
so we continued to the next exit and called Eric. He gave us very straight
forward directions but they were right through the middle of Newark. About
half way across Newark, which took a half hour or so we started seeing
ambulances zooming by and hovering helicopters... this cant be good! We
made it to the storage facility and met Eric and the car and became aware
that there had been a huge pileup on the Garden State, good thing they
didnt allow trucks afterall!! There was the Car... after all these years,
as it turned out a typical Southern PA salt rat that had had a hard life
before Paramount got it and mudded it up and painted it. But it was THE
car!! Always wondered what had happened to it. We took a few pictures and
Brian pushed the car down the long hallway to the end where there was a
little ramp to the exit door... and upon reaching that door and opening it
an even STEEPER ramp to the street outside!
I went and got the truck and trailer and didnt have much luck getting it
backed around to the door into the storage facility. I can back a small
boat, but it took Brian's expertize to get the trailer around using mirrors
only... with a little help from Eric to pull the trailer a bit straighter
than we had it. We started to pull it up with a come-along but quickly
realized that this was going to take a while and we had the street blocked.
Eric then offered to push the car on with his... and it did have good rear
bumper mounts so who were we to say no? He got it most of the way up before
his tires broke loose and we pulled it the rest of the way with the
come-along. Finally with the car loaded up, we headed out around the
Building......
Only to get stopped by heavily uniformed local cops doing a Homeland
Security check!! They had me open the truck, checked my license, Searched
the Witness car... and well... OK, I wont embelish further!
After just a few moments they let us go and we were off back through Newark
with this whole rig... and back onto I78. I could never imagine as I
watched the film 20 years ago that I would be the person to bring the car
back into the public eye for the first time 20 years later as we hauled it
down I 78 and back into Pennsylvania! Its now 4:30 and time for Milking...
or in this case Gassing up the truck and grabbing a couple more bags of
munchies!
We got back to the invasion site after 6:30 and unloaded the car under
the tent and headed for the host Hotel, quite hungry and very tired! It was
a blast meetin up with everyone there... and seeing many cars I hadnt seen
yet... or hadnt seen since thier restoration (like Sophy!) After the meet
and greet I headed back to Ron's, gathered his new Fasty and brought it over
to the showfield seeing as we already had the truck and trailer... then
returned both of them.
I really owe Brain for This day alone!!! and the Invasion has just
started...
More tommoro!!
Keith
Keith Park
Top Notch Restorations
topnotch@nycap.rr.com
71 Squareback
65 Notchback
65 Squareback
87 Golf
88 Rx7 10th Anniversary
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