checking out old cars

[Guest leadsled1953]

i have been tore up by bees a few times this year looking at cars in a few junkyards.i keep forgetting to bring bee spray [lotts of it].is this a common problem for the rest of you.in fact i gotta go to the hardware store now because i got cars to look at this week in ny.last time i was there i opened the door on a desoto and was chased over the top of several cars by some very mad yellow jackets.the things we do for fun <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[JO BO]

Sounds like you got it easy. I have had bats fly out of one, a couple of spitting mad rattle snakes and a sleepy skunk come after me and when I was young and dumb an angry rancher with a shotgun. Fun..Fun.. JO BO [color:"red"]

[Guest leadsled1953]

snakes...i towed an old buick to my house years ago i opened the hood and there was a huge hornets nest.they chased me a good hunded yards.i killed all the bees in the car[3 cans of bee spray.]i hooked up a battery ran the fuel line into a pail of gas and jumped in and turned the key.well a 4 foot black snake fell out of the dash and landed on my legs .i screamed like a little girl and bailed out of the car like i was on fire. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Guest leadsled1953]

i think about all those 40s& 50s cars we use to play in the woods and behind old sheds in Virginia as a kids.we never even thought about skunks ,snakes or bees. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[JO BO]

I have halfway resigned my old car hunts to mid fall/early spring when Mother Natures perils are sleeping. But sometimes I see one I just gotta go get a closeup. End of June this year in Dakota ,openedmy car door and was engulfed with a swarm of gnats and mosquitos the size of small birds.It was a pretty well rotted Model T touring, nostolgic feelings I got from the old farm yard and car were worth it.