January 2004

This car was donated by Joe Richard after the car was in his mother-in-laws garage fire. This is the interior.

A pic of the firewall. Everything burned. Fortunately for Joe, he had pulled the engine and trans and had it at his house during the fire.

Rear trunk.

Another interior shot. That's Joe and my father-in-law.

Here we're transferring the car from Joe's trailer to mine. Joe stored the car on a trailer in the burnt garage to keep it out of the weather.

This is Joe and his son Chris, after we got the car on my trailer.

We put the tarp on the car, then pushed it back into the garage. We left the car overnight in the garage and picked it up the next morning.

This is towing the car and trailer back home to Plant City. This is the tunnel under Mobile, AL. This was a long trip, 1100 mi roundtrip. We left Friday night at 7:00 pm and arrived in MS at 4:00 am. We stayed in a rest area until 7:00 am Saturday. We left Sunday at 7:30 am and arrived back home at 6:30 pm. It took an extra 3 hours to drive the truck and trailer back with the car.

Since the car burned, there is a lot of cleaning to do. This is the interior before clean up. You can see where the dash melted.

Driver's side.

Driver's footwell.

Passenger's footwell.

Firewall and seat area.

Steering wheel and dash.

Front view with dash.

Interior after clean up.

Driver's side footwell.

Firewall and seat area.

Steering wheel and dash removed.

Passenger's seat area.

Front view without dash.