Re: [AMC-list] Nash Truck

[William 'Chip' Lamb <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That could be the one, but Leonard's still has writing on the doors 
and I don't think it was out of Harrisonburg. It would not surprise 
me if Leonard actually had two, he has 300 or so cars stashed in a 
series of sheds.

At 11:19 PM 12/17/2009, you wrote:

> William 'Chip' Lamb <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> >Leonard McGrady in MD may have bought the tow truck you passed on, I
> >think it was from the northeast. It's now near Aberdeen. $2500 is a
> >steal for a Cal truck.
>
>
> You might be referring to a Nash tow truck that was owned by 
> Shenandoah Transportation in Harrisonburg, VA for almost fifty 
> years.  I used to go by there to visit the old man who owned the 
> place.  He passed away in the nineties, and his wife and family set 
> up an auction to close the business out.  He had Ramblers and AMC's 
> of all vintages right into the mid to late nineties sitting on his 
> lot and inside his building.
>
> He also had a treasure-trove of AMC parts in the parts department 
> basement; as I understood it, just about everything was taken to the 
> county dump.
>
> I rummaged through his stuff a couple of times whle he was still 
> around.  In the late eighties, I bought a brand new rimblow steering 
> wheel for my 70 AMX; in the early eighties I bought a pair of NOS 
> quarters for a 67 Marlin (which I resold at a car show) and a pair 
> of quarters for an AMX I was working on.  I even found a bunch of 
> internal transmission parts I needed to rebuild my 68 T-10.  He has 
> some amazing stuff downstairs.  The back lot was awesome 
> too.  Marlins, Javelins, Classics, Ambassadors, verts, you name it 
> -- he had it; right into the nineties.
>
> Anyway, I'd heard that the tow truck went to MD after the auction, 
> but I'm not certain.
>
> -- Marc

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