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I was in Baltimore a couple months ago at a small place that does International shipments. A rather old, hole in the wall place that had several old cars scattered around. A real nice un-restored GTX, and 2 '58 Impalas were near each other. Although both Impalas looked liked they were pulled out of a cornfield, they were complete cars. A very rare sight. The guy in charge told me they were all going to buyers from Eastern Europe. All former Soviet countries. Also said it was a weekly occurrence shipping older cars there via a container.
Unique old cars and buyers. Would have loved to have that GTX.

Had a visitor in the garage today.

LOL Did any customers come by and exclaim, "No WONDER they work so bloody slow--look who they're hiring!"

Seriously though, cute li'l guy...looks like a Painted Turtle. I caught one of those accidentally while fishing for sunfish (kind of like perch) in Penticton, B.C.

Coelacanth wrote:LOL Did any customers come by and exclaim, "No WONDER they work so bloody slow--look who they're hiring!"

Seriously though, cute li'l guy...looks like a Painted Turtle. I caught one of those accidentally while fishing for sunfish (kind of like perch) in Penticton, B.C.

Yep i wondered why his builds were a bit slow cumming up here !!! But man what a paint job would look like modeled of the turtles neck lines.cool !!!!! don

there's quite a few ponds around the garage...... 2 maybe 75 yards away. it's not the first time we've seen turtles around, they're just usually not in front of the drill press.

the shell was about 7" x 9" or so.... somewhere around there.

Do you know if he had any red or orange markings on the bottom of the shell?

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It looks like a painted turtle.

scr8p wrote:Had a visitor in the garage today.

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Looks to be a local 506 union brother, the same as me!

He dropped his picketing sign for higher wages SCR8P!!!! DON

i didn't check the bottom of his shell. just scooped him up and took him over towards the one pond.

it was probably saying........ WTF? if i wanted to be over here i wouldn't have been in your garage.

Some fun reading if you're interested; I have a degree in Zoology that's otherwise pretty much useless--except for occasions like this.

http://biodiversityatlas.org/species/western_painted_turtle.php

there a HUGE turtle that we see every few years. our neighbor, who has lived in that area since birth says he remembers that turtle from when he was younger. it's all moss covered, looks like a huge rock if it isn't moving.

scr8p wrote:there a HUGE turtle that we see every few years. our neighbor, who has lived in that area since birth says he remembers that turtle from when he was younger. it's all moss covered, looks like a huge rock if it isn't moving.

sounds like my union rep.

Did it look like this?

Yep!, only that turtle is missing the company in one hand, and our cash in the other