Posted by JDEM on March 21, 2016 at 05:46:11 from (70.194.5.41):
In Reply to: jdemaris posted by coshoo on March 20, 2016 at 11:37:57:
I remember the sale at my dead best-friend's house on Percy Holmes Road. Kind of hard to forget. I was 800 miles away when I found out his estranged widow was auctioning off all his stuff. I drove back got to the auction when it was half-way over. I saw a lot of Bob's Oliver stuff go dirt cheap. Some stuff was missing and I don't know what ever happened to it (unless you got it). Bob had a OEM Oliver-Trasco aux. trans setup for an HG or OC3 and that wasn't there. He also had a few brand-new IXB-5 engines. New-old-stock, not rebuilt. I didn't see them either unless they sold before I got there. Must be bad blood up on the road. A few years earlier - there were three of us "collectors/hoarders who were friends. The guy at the bottom corner of Percy Holmes was Charlie Egloff. His wife left him because she said he had too many tractors and "never shut up." So, it was just him - and barns full of tractors, Model T parts, and much, much more. He died, and his wife who lived in another town - got everything. She treated me and Bob like enemies because we were friends of Charlie. Bob and I agreed we'd NEVER let such a thing happen to our stuff if we died. Well? A few years later - EXACTLY the same thing happened to Bob. He croaked. He had called me and said he had a bad cold - and it ended up he had a super aggessive form of lung cancer. Dead as a door-nail pretty quick. So HIS estranged wife got all and did with it as she pleased. Most went at that auction where most when dirt-cheap. I have no idea where the other stuff went.
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