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Posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014 http://www.ebay.com/itm/331344201409/$24,000 I think all the members on subchat should pool up money on ebay to buy it! Buyer responsible for vehicle pick-up or shipping |Shipping quote available Item location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Ships to: United States Payments: Deposit of US $2,000.00 within 48 hours of auction close Full payment is required within 14 days of auction close Original 1935 R6 NYC Subway Car One Of Only 7 Remaining R6's! This is a rare, once in a lifetime, opportunity to own a major piece of New York City history. For your consideration is an original and authentic 1935 R6 New York City Subway Car. Built in 1935 by the American Car and Foundry Company under contract for the City of New York. This train was contracted for use on the IND line. In the mid 1960's, it was moved to the BMT line, before finally being taken out of service in 1975. There were a total of 500 R6's built for the New York City subway system in 1935 and 1936, this being one of only 7 remaining examples, and one of only two that are privately owned. One end of this R6 had previously been sheared off, to facilitate it being affixed to an existing structure. In other words, one end is "open". Many of the original interior details remain, including the original seats (re-upholstered sometime in the 1980's), ceiling fans and hand straps. The undercarriage had been stripped off in the late 1970's and the entire car now sits on a thin concrete slab. Whether as a restoration product, a retail display centerpiece, or a conversion to be utilized in a restaurant setting, the possibilities are endless. Due to it's current location, it proved difficult for me to get the types of photos I would have liked. Seriously interested parties are encouraged to come and view this piece of history for themselves before bidding. The R6 is currently stored in a private yard in Brooklyn, New York. This listing does not offer any sort of shipping or freight and is considered as "Local Pick Up Only". This R6 is being sold "As Is, Where Is", meaning that all costs and logistics of flatbedding and transporting this train will be at the sole expense of the successful bidder. I had this R6 moved to its current location several years ago, and can tell you that it can indeed be loaded onto a lowboy flatbed for transport. I can possibly arrange to get an estimate for loading and transport to your location upon request. For further information, or any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me via the eBay message system Car '''978''' was converted into a deli (Golden's Deli) at the [[Staten Island Mall]], until the Deli was closed in January of 2012. The owners of the Deli have placed it in storage, but have ultimately decided to sell the car.http://www.ebay.com/...344201409 |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Oct 15 13:05:00 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. Too bad I no longer own my home. It would make a great back yard item to get my obnoxious neighbor PO'd. |
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Posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 13:07:13 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Wed Oct 15 13:05:00 2014. yup! |
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Posted by MR RT on Wed Oct 15 14:38:58 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. too much money for a body ... that is to say most of a body ... |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Oct 15 15:49:02 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. overprice |
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Posted by Allan on Wed Oct 15 16:05:19 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. I was wondering what they were going to do with the car. Now I know. |
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Posted by Hart Bus on Wed Oct 15 17:13:08 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 13:07:13 2014. Would that fall under the heading of a shed or is it some other BS forcing you to go before a zoning board, for hearings, permits and other governmental nonsense ( read that as "mo' money, mo' money) |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Oct 15 19:30:32 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Hart Bus on Wed Oct 15 17:13:08 2014. Probably not since it wouldn't have to be attached to any sort of foundation so it would be a "temporary" structure. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Oct 15 19:58:08 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. Heypaul should jump all over that!:) |
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Posted by Hart Bus on Wed Oct 15 20:07:29 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Oct 15 19:58:08 2014. If his wife lets him ! |
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Posted by Mysterious Friday 1986 on Thu Oct 16 00:38:00 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. Car 978 made it into the news today.http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nyc-subway-car-1935-sale-article-1.1975753  |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 00:47:17 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Mysterious Friday 1986 on Thu Oct 16 00:38:00 2014. $24,000 is still too pricey for a parts car. The real value to museums would have been the undercar stuff. Seats and such, not so much. |
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Posted by SubwaySurf on Thu Oct 16 05:10:59 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by MR RT on Wed Oct 15 14:38:58 2014. Never mind the the shipping charges. |
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Posted by SubwaySurf on Thu Oct 16 05:11:58 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Oct 15 15:49:02 2014. As if you'd know |
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Posted by SubwaySurf on Thu Oct 16 05:14:24 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. Foamer fantasy, to say the very least. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Oct 16 07:02:06 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. Does it come with pastrami on rye, knish, and Dr Browns Cream Soda? |
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Posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Thu Oct 16 08:41:32 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 00:47:17 2014. Heck I've eaten in that car when it was at Golden's Kosher Deli on Staten Island. Kmart (now Target) shopping Center near the mall. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Thu Oct 16 10:18:21 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. The current owner should donate it to a cartel of museums as a parts donor, a $24,000.00 donation for tax purposes. |
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Posted by jabrams on Thu Oct 16 10:24:26 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 00:47:17 2014. It really should be: "Would you like to buy the top 3/4's of a real subway car" I wonder how much money he would get for scraping it. Maybe you should donate the parts to one of the museums NYTM, Shoreline, Kingston, etc., let them remove the parts they need, he gets a tax write-off, and the remains of the car then goes to scrap. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 11:35:26 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Thu Oct 16 08:41:32 2014. Always wanted to get there myself, but never had the spare time when I was down that way. But then again, I've eaten many a lunch in arnines on their home trackage. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 11:36:06 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by jabrams on Thu Oct 16 10:24:26 2014. Doesn't look like there's all that much there anymore though. |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 15:25:00 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Oct 16 07:02:06 2014. Why not a Cel-Ray soda and don't forget the Kosher dill pickle on the side. |
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Posted by Wayne-MrSlantR40 on Thu Oct 16 17:19:54 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 15:25:00 2014. Cel-Ray....YUM! :O) |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 16 17:29:11 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Avid Reader on Thu Oct 16 10:18:21 2014. Ebay listing |
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Posted by chud1 on Thu Oct 16 18:25:42 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 15:25:00 2014. a article about ths 1935 R6 978 in todays ny daily news.yum-tum on da pickle and soda. chud1. :).... |
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Posted by Newkirk Images on Thu Oct 16 19:52:53 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 16 17:29:11 2014. No bids, I wonder why ?Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:21:05 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Hart Bus on Wed Oct 15 20:07:29 2014. AFAIK he's single. At least he's never mentioned being married. |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 20:21:38 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by chud1 on Thu Oct 16 18:25:42 2014. I would often stop at Golden's for dinner on the way back from my Bluegrass jams in NJ. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:22:32 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 11:35:26 2014. Of course, the old throw-the-reverser-in-neutral trick. That's the third time I've fallen for that same trick this month!:) |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:23:07 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 11:36:06 2014. Looks as if both ends got chopped off. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:23:42 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Wayne-MrSlantR40 on Thu Oct 16 17:19:54 2014. Throw in some porcupine meatballs. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 23:07:02 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:22:32 2014. Shift happens. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Oct 16 23:07:34 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Oct 16 20:23:07 2014. #2 end was still there. They even had a stuffed motorman in the seat. :) |
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Posted by jabrams on Thu Oct 16 23:53:01 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 16 17:29:11 2014. Actually according to the Daily News, it is currently in my neighborhood, on a flatbed, he can place it on my front lawn. Thre only use I can see for it is as a parts donor, as the front was cut off by the 3rd set of doors. Even at $2400 it would not be a good bargain, unless someone would build it into A store or restaurant. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 17 00:06:42 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by jabrams on Thu Oct 16 23:53:01 2014. Damn shame ... as I heard the story, he really wanted a whole car but by the time he got to the scrapper to make a deal, that was all that was left. :( |
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Posted by rkba on Fri Oct 17 01:00:22 2014, in response to Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Union Tpke on Wed Oct 15 08:57:50 2014. What a piece of shit. Off to the scrappers' heap -- where it should have stayed the first time around. |
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Posted by chud1 on Fri Oct 17 05:19:53 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 20:21:38 2014. sounds excellent!chud1. :).... |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Oct 17 08:48:37 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Newkirk Images on Thu Oct 16 19:52:53 2014. $24,000!!!! That's a lot!!!! |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 17 08:53:17 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Oct 17 08:48:37 2014. I tried to bid $10 but it wouldn't let me! :D |
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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Fri Oct 17 14:49:07 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 15:25:00 2014. It's Pickle Day on the Lower East Side this Sunday!--Mark |
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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Fri Oct 17 14:49:45 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Newkirk Images on Thu Oct 16 19:52:53 2014. I think he'd have a better shot if he offered free shipping :)--Mark |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 17 18:39:19 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 17 00:06:42 2014. The other story is that a full car would not fit properly in the restaurant. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Oct 17 21:56:40 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 17 08:53:17 2014. It should have cued up Steve Allen in that classic clip where he's laughing uncontrollably. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 17 23:10:23 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Fri Oct 17 18:39:19 2014. Ah well ... gotta be one or the other. If I was buying a used arnine, I'd want trucks under both ends. :) |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Oct 18 00:06:49 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 17 23:10:23 2014. Not to mention marker lights.:) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 18 00:11:48 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Oct 18 00:06:49 2014. I believe the paddles and some attempt at lighting them was there on the one end they did have. Pretty sure I saw a photo somewhere with them lit. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 18 00:31:06 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 17 23:10:23 2014. Always had two fantasies about buying an R-9. No kind of serious money for either one, but it's nice to dream.1. When I lived with my family in a split level, first enclose the open porch and make it into a real room, then put the R-9 in the backyard, (no trucks, mounted on some kind of reinforced pilings), attaching it to the room that was formerly a porch, you could enter and leave through the storm door. Inside, leave half of it as is, in the other half, remove the seats, put in a desk a couple of chairs and a bookcase, with hanging plants in the windows, and blinds, making it into a kind of study. Leave both motormans' cabs intact. 2. This one would take serious, serious, money, and a lot of buildding permits and/ or greased palms. Build a seventy or eighty feet long IND station mockup in your backyard. Get excavating machinery to dig a trench 25 or so feet wide, then pour concrete to make walls, a trackbed and platform, install track, ties, etc. Install IND style pillars along the platform, then lower the R-9 onto the tracks (can also be on pilings w/o trucks - just have a trackbed to make it look real). Then cover it over, tile the walls, make a name tablets either from a real IND station or your home street & house number. Find an artist who can paint each endwall as a tunnel entrance, with lights, signals etc. Install benches, and a mini fare control area, and make it accessible by a door from your basement. Have friends over, tell them you want to show them the subway in your basement. "Sure," they'll say, thinking you're either kidding, or lost your marbles. Take them downstairs through the ordinary basement, then open the small unassuming door, next to the washing machine perhaps, and voila, take them into your subway station. It would blow their minds. Something like that would be great place for parties. And be sure to make the handles in the motorman's cab workable, and when used by partygoers (under the influence or not), a tape of R-9 sounds will begin, piped in through a number of speakers throughout the car. And when there's no parties, it can be a place to hunker down in, when you get cabin fever upstairs in the house. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 18 00:52:31 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 18 00:31:06 2014. Our friend Heypaul had many visit his arnine shrine. Bingbong and I sat in that cab too and enjoyed every moment of that plus extended Heypaul time just the three of us. It is still genuinely one of the high points of visiting the city. He's a really cool personality, a genuine mensch. And we REALLY love his style too. We had a great time exploring the doom of Coney Island and things only Heypaul (and we) could appreciate for giggles.As to personal arnines, many have done it. There's a car that was abandoned in Jacksonville that is now coming to life in the Carolinas that was just what you described (aside from the building permits for a huge hole. Many other railcars that escaped the scrapper did similar to what you describe. Arnines are hard to find, but there's plenty of others still available. It isnt' the price of the car that's a killer, it's MOVING it. :( |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 18 01:05:00 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 16 20:21:38 2014. I know this is off topic, but what material did you play? Doc & Merle Watson etc., originals? Did you listen much to Clarence White?He was on a couple of later Byrds albums, and was with "The Country Gentleman" - they did at least one album for a small label. Sadly he was killed by a drunken driver, while unloading equipment at a gig. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 18 01:07:34 2014, in response to Re: Do you want to buy an 1935 R6 978 SUBWAY CAR, YOU CAN ON EBAY, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 18 00:52:31 2014. yep. and I'll bet neither Hertz nor Enterprise rent flatbeds.... |
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