Car stories..

[KUZMIN]

Hello guys, girls.
I would like to hear some of your stories on some rare cars or even unique car stories that you guys have had....I am a little bored and these are entertaining (LOVE www.carsinbarns.com).
Here are one of mine (I am not going to list locations, sorry)

197x XA Fairmont:
My little brother is 1/2 italian, and his comare and compare (I have no idea what it is in eng, but its some kind of relative....grandfather/mother i suppose), I was at their house when I was a few years younger (15-16 years old) when I got bored.
They lived on a BIG block of land full of grape wines, and had a few large garages.
As I am abit of a sticky bastard I had a glimpse in their shed's, found a car under a tarp that is covered full of rubbish and YEARS of dust.
I asked the owner (joe-compare) what it was, and he said his son's first car.
He asked if I wanted to take a look and I said yea.
After about an hour of moving rubbish off it (fishing gear, tool's, peices of metal, milk crates, etc)
The car only had a tarp on it....He ripped it off and I found a 197x (sorry dont remember year) XA Fairmont.
It was an all origonal car, no rust, stock 302 clevo with auto and LSD.
Car only had 65,000 origional miles on the clock, as Vince (origional owner) only drove it for 6years from new, then he moved to Adelaide and bought a Ute, and parked the XA hoping to come back to it in a year or 2.-but he never did, and it has just been sitting there collecting rubbish and dust.
Joe asked me if I liked it, and when I replied "I LOVE IT" he asked if I wanted to go for a spin around the block in it.
The car hasnt been started since it was parked around 78, but after he drained the fuel from the tank, put new fuel in it, put some down the carbo, and stuck a fresh battery on it...It started after about 10 turn overs!!
He let it run and it idled like a brand new car, as he pumped the tires up.
I didnt know how to drive then, so he drove the car out of the property and floored it down a straight road...the car rached 120 very very quickly, when he slowed down and it was time to return.
When we came back I knew I had to have this car as my first.
I asked if he knew if Vince wanted to sell it, he said he'd give him a call.
Turned out Vince forgot about the car years ago and no longer needed it, so he handed me the keys and said "its yours!".
I washed and vacumed the car, and it looked brand spanking new...everything worked in it and it would pass a roadworthy in a glimpse of an aye!
As it was in the middle of summer, I decided to leave the car outside over night.
When I woke up, my worst night mare came true!...the car was gone!!!
Turns out someone must have been walking past and saw the car, broke the window and jacked it.
I reported the car as stolen, but found it about 3days later on THE SAME FARM (in another old barn about 7km away) completely stripped.
All that was left of the car was a dash, rear boot, tail lights, rear bumper, and bare block.
The heartless theives even jumped on the roof and boot denting them in (however the roof poped into place when punched).
They took all intirior, box, and diff.
front end (guards, lights, bonnet, etc) was also stolen.
I called the police to tell them I found the car, and they met me there an hour later.
Took a quick glimpse over it and told me that it is probably aborigionals as they are well known to steal cars in the area and told me that there is no point in checking for prints, etc....just filled out a report and went back to base.
The car had way too much work on it (considering I didnt know a think about cars then), and I had to say goodbye to it and leave it at its final resting place.
Months later it was dragged out of the old woodern barn outside as the barn was being used, and as far as I know it is still sitting there rotting into the ground.

Such a shame that it started out to be a such a nice day, and within 24hours it ended up being so horrible where another beautiful XA lost its life and glory.

I am planing on going back to the area around Sep. This year (I am now 2000km away from it) and may bring it back home, to restore this machine into its final glory.

anyway,
Sorry about the long post and probably boring story, I have plenty more but this one is most interesting to me as it was my first car.
Anyone else got stories they wanna share?

thanks.