Toledo, Ohio Club?

 

Anyway, the older gentleman approached me at the show, we made a deal and I delivered it to Perrysburg on my way home......kinda wish I had it back.

 

Everyone in town seemed to know the man and his shop was one of the old buildings downtown (seems like only a couple of blocks there anyway)  It was filled with all kinds of old parts and NOS upholstery in boxes......didn't have time to looks through it, would have been fun.

 

Anyway, if you find out anything about it let me know, just curious if he ever got it running. He was anxious to show it off to an old buddy of his because it had a flathead Ford swapped into it in front of the original t-90.....it was a rough, black primered thing with red rattlecan painted wheels (as was the rest of it)

 

 

John

People come and go in small  towns,  but I'll keep searching.  We have a 300 to 400 + car show each year on main street, and I've had the only Willys/Jeep in the show for several years.

 

Regards: Rogan Murdock

 

The jeep was basically a parts jeep so I doubt it would show up at any shows.

 

You don't know of a man storing old cars in a couple of the old buildings downtown? (maybe the 'downtown' I'm talking about is throwing you off) where I delivered the jeep looked to be about two blocks of old, brick buildings......I want to say I drove in from the interstate, took a right, drove for maybe 5 miles or so (more or less) into maybe (?) a blinking light or stopsign. This is the 'town' I'm referring to.....(I do remember there was another area that could be more 'town' because I had tire trouble and he directed me to a Walmart in this 'other' area that seemed to be more built up or 'newer' so to speak.

 

The guy had some cars stored in one of the old two story brick buildings (I want to say it used to be the Post Office or maybe next to an old post office)

 

His shop (also an old storefront looking brick building) would have been directly across the street from this (he had a couple of Jeepsters in there at that time.).......It's blowing my mind that you don't know about him if you have lived there that long.

 

Both the building and the shop building had large garage-type doors doors that were wide open when we got there and we thought that was strange because it took us probably 30 minutes for him to appear when we delivered the jeep......and everything was wide open.

 

We may be talking about two different areas, I don't know......The Main Street I remember wouldn't be anywhere big enough for 300-400 cars......One other thing....coming into the stop sign/blinking light traffic light, whatever it was, if you turned left there and go about a mile or so there should be an old quonset hut/garage on I believe the right that was also his.

 

O.k this has got my curiosity up now.

 

 

 

 

Went probably 5 miles (don't remember, could have been farther) but the best of my recollection, we didn't get off this same road till we came to the stopsign or light (whichever it was) at the 'town' I referred to.

 

I'm not going into the whole story again (I just wrote about a 6inch reply telling of the 'day' and when I went to post it, it disappeared into cyberspace)...I'm not surprised.....maybe I'll tell the story later........just leave it at this, it was probably the most surreal experience I have ever had......and now this, my post disappears and you don't even know of the place........looks like I'm gonna be having bad dreams again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just loosing that particular one made sense because that's kinda how the whole day went. If you take to exploring, I would try the first or second left (I want to say first) after you exit. It should put you on a rural two lane. Follow that for not more than 10 miles and it should put you at the four way stop at the 'town'. I'll try the story again:

 

Left Toledo, told the guy I would drop it off Sunday on our way out of town. (he had given me $50 with the rest on delivery, I think it was $400)

 

We turn left on said two lane and start calling the number on Phyl's cell phone....no answer. Tried again a couple miles down the road....got his wife. "He's not home, he's downtown at the shop"........"Yes, we are delivering the jeep"

 

Get to the forementioned fourway stop (twostory brick building on the right....little neighborhood market straight ahead) Turn right at the two story and look across the street...must be the place, there's a Jeepster pulled in there with the hood up. (both of these buildings have large garage-type pullup doors....both were wide open...both directly across the street from one another)

 

Pull up in front of the one with the Jeepster, look around, call a name, no answer.......walk across the street, same thing, no answer......(this two story was either an old post office or was next to an old post office, can't quite remember)

 

Anyway, wait for a minute of two in the truck....call the woman back she's says again "he's down at the shop waiting for some people"....."we are those people and we are in front of the shop, nobody's here".

 

She says "maybe he's down the street at the other shop, the qounset hut."   We drive about a mile down the street....nothing.

 

Drive back to 'town' (two blocks of it) Pull up in front of the 'shop' again. Same routine, no answer. "This has got to be it I said, there's a Jeepster here"

 

Phyl says "I'm going down to this market and ask if they know him" (we had a name then of course, but I can't remember it now for the life of me.....part of the 'cleansing' the aliens did that day I think)

 

She comes back five minutes later with a strange look on her face....."well that was a weird experience but they said we are in the right place"......(later I find out she walked in and they just kept talking like she didn't even exist...looked right at her and everything.)

 

Go back in both buildings and still nobody answers......I'm getting a weird vibe now.

 

Walk back across the street to 'the shop' and Phyl hands me the cell phone and says "call the wife again".............Call the same number I had been calling and ........you guessed it! THE PHONE IN THE SHOP STARTS RINGING! (and of course, no one answers the cell phone) Coincidence?? maybe, so I hang up and the shop phone quits ringing......at this point both of us feel like we just stepped into a FRIGGIN' STEPHEN KING NOVEL!!!

 

"o.K. five more minutes and we're outta here, he's losing $50 and we're taking this jeep back to Alabama"

 

All of a sudden when we both had our backs turned a man steps up behind us and says "so you found me"..........we both about jumped out of our skins!!

 

Turned around and there he was.......I know there is a logical explanation for this but it sure was weird at the time......all we wanted to do was get outta town......Unload the jeep, he pays me the $400 then right before he hands it to me says "no, I want to give it to her"

 

I'm thinking "just give it to one of us so we can get the hell outta here!"

 

Start writing out the Bill of Sale (a pre printed one) and he says "let's do this in here" gesturing toward the 'shop'.....(thoughts of baseball bats or guns raced through my head)

 

I said "what name do you want on it?" not moving from the sidewalk...."oh, I don't want a name or the amount on it, just date it"..........fine I'm thinking, that's even quicker.

 

End of business and headed out of town to the closest Walmart to get a flat on the trailer fixed.........Long story, short here is the Cherokee developed a flat too on the way to the Walmart and by the time we got everything squared away in the shade of a tree on the edge of the Walmart parking lot we were ready to never see Perrysburg again!

 

Later on that evening somewhere south on I-75 I realized that there is a spare from a Jeep Grand Cherokee sitting on the edge of the parking lot at Walmart........she says "oh no, do we need to go back and get it?"............"Not as long as there is ONE junkyard left in Alabama we don't"..........................What a trip! Did I say I kinda wished I had that jeep back? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, not so sure now!

 

I would kind of like to know what you find out though.....(if they let you out of town that is!)

 

The way it shows coming off 75 is the way it looks right in my memory bank.....so, although we always said Perrysburg we weren't there.

 

Also after Mapquesting Rudolph, I Googled Walmart Locations......there's one in Bowling Green......that makes sense too.

 

Would the Exit for Rudolph be one or two exits from the Perrysburg exit (wish I had my exit guide here at work with me)

 

Looks like we're closing in on it......

 

Guess you're gonna have to make a run down there a snap a picture of a building or two!

 

Anyway, thanks for the help.......(I sent Phyl the link to this thread at work today and she said that was the guys name.....she recognized it from that, but she wouldn't have remembered it)

 

This detective work is kinda fun!!!