nerdygrrl
Well-known member
After being out of the hobby for a number of years after selling my collection off during covid I am back with a bang! Out of nowhere a barn find red tent popped up a couple of hours from me and then a mouse infested PC10 popped up for sale two weeks later.
The red tent was a pretty straight forward pickup. A guy was listing it for an op friend. The pics weren't great but for the listed price it was worth the drive. When I got there and the seller opened it up I discovered that it had a decent amount of mouse activity. There was a nest on the one chassis that took me three hours to completely take off and remove entirely. It has a decent amount of rust, but should be ok.
The PC10. Oh Lordy the PC10. Hands down the sketchiest pickup of my life. It was listed on CL for $2500. I wrote the seller and told her it was in pretty rough shape, and that I was interested, but probably would only be willing to pay $500-800 for it depending on what I saw when I got there.
Oh the things that I saw when I got there. I pulled into the driveway and it was a total squatter situation. Tents, campers, a condemned house. Trash bags and bags of human waste all over the yard. I opened the cab to inches of mouse waste and a hypodermic needle. Needless to say I broke it down and loaded it as fast as I could.
I have never seen such mouse damage before. It's such a shame because this lived in their garage arcade for years and aside from teh mouse damage the boards, chassis and tubes were in fantastic shape.
Anyhoo, a couple of fun winter projects.




The red tent was a pretty straight forward pickup. A guy was listing it for an op friend. The pics weren't great but for the listed price it was worth the drive. When I got there and the seller opened it up I discovered that it had a decent amount of mouse activity. There was a nest on the one chassis that took me three hours to completely take off and remove entirely. It has a decent amount of rust, but should be ok.
The PC10. Oh Lordy the PC10. Hands down the sketchiest pickup of my life. It was listed on CL for $2500. I wrote the seller and told her it was in pretty rough shape, and that I was interested, but probably would only be willing to pay $500-800 for it depending on what I saw when I got there.
Oh the things that I saw when I got there. I pulled into the driveway and it was a total squatter situation. Tents, campers, a condemned house. Trash bags and bags of human waste all over the yard. I opened the cab to inches of mouse waste and a hypodermic needle. Needless to say I broke it down and loaded it as fast as I could.
I have never seen such mouse damage before. It's such a shame because this lived in their garage arcade for years and aside from teh mouse damage the boards, chassis and tubes were in fantastic shape.
Anyhoo, a couple of fun winter projects.
































