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Subject: Re: LT600 (any more stories out there?)

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David Gladkosky
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Date Posted: 08:40:24 02/13/06 Mon
In reply to: norm polcyn 's message, "LT600" on 18:54:44 02/07/06 Tue

>Thanks, Norm, for the great story!
Does anyone else have a great memory about a long lost Borgward, Goliath, or Lloyd? Tell us about it!
Webmaster

back about 1970 my father was working at the
>international docks in chicago, found a lloyd 600 2
>seat, 2 cylinder, wing-ding engined, no heat,stick,
>powder blue panel van, sitting on a lg. wooden pallet
>in the corner of a dock building, asked the dock
>manager about it and was told that it along with about
>20 others had been shipped here in the 50's but
>somehow the paperwork was missing....so it newer left
>the international side of the dock....somehow or
>another it followed my old man home...when it showed
>up, it ran like CRAP..but had 24.5 miles on the
>speedo. as kids my old man used it as a toy on
>saturdays to go to the bar or such...around 1973 or 4
>i aquired a crosley hot shot driveable chassis from a
>neighbor to take apart or drive around my parents
>backyard...after making a huge mudhole out of the
>backyard and getting caught"fucking-up" my father and
>older brother picked up the nose of my hotshot and
>placed it inside the bach of the Lloyd and closed the
>doors....oops....about a week later a crosley fanatic
>that worked with my uncle at Electro-Motive in McCook
>il. came over and drove away with wy freshly restored
>crosley hot shot chassis and my fathers lloyd 600..the
>only wear on the lloyd was very fadded powder blue
>paint, dryrotted tires, and about 15 teeth my father
>gas welded and hand ground back onto the
>flywheel....MAN-ALIVE...i don't know which vehicle i'd
>like to have more today......THE LLOYD (snoopy}
>i often wonder what happened to that truck.....

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>>Thanks, Norm, for the great story! >Does anyone else have a great memory about a long lost >Borgward, Goliath, or Lloyd? Tell us about it! >Webmaster > > > > >back about 1970 my father was working at the >>international docks in chicago, found a lloyd 600 2 >>seat, 2 cylinder, wing-ding engined, no heat,stick, >>powder blue panel van, sitting on a lg. wooden pallet >>in the corner of a dock building, asked the dock >>manager about it and was told that it along with about >>20 others had been shipped here in the 50's but >>somehow the paperwork was missing....so it newer left >>the international side of the dock....somehow or >>another it followed my old man home...when it showed >>up, it ran like CRAP..but had 24.5 miles on the >>speedo. as kids my old man used it as a toy on >>saturdays to go to the bar or such...around 1973 or 4 >>i aquired a crosley hot shot driveable chassis from a >>neighbor to take apart or drive around my parents >>backyard...after making a huge mudhole out of the >>backyard and getting caught"fucking-up" my father and >>older brother picked up the nose of my hotshot and >>placed it inside the bach of the Lloyd and closed the >>doors....oops....about a week later a crosley fanatic >>that worked with my uncle at Electro-Motive in McCook >>il. came over and drove away with wy freshly restored >>crosley hot shot chassis and my fathers lloyd 600..the >>only wear on the lloyd was very fadded powder blue >>paint, dryrotted tires, and about 15 teeth my father >>gas welded and hand ground back onto the >>flywheel....MAN-ALIVE...i don't know which vehicle i'd >>like to have more today......THE LLOYD (snoopy} >>i often wonder what happened to that truck.....

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