I’ve been very excited to be filling the scrap metal dumpster will all manner of leftover things from the farm, but I kept having misgivings about one particular item.

I didn’t really want this old front end assembly collecting leaves on the hillside below the barn, but the more I looked at it, the more I thought it deserved a better fate than becoming a toaster in Shenzen.  So today when I ran in to my neighbor Keith Johnson, and expert in old car stuff, I asked him if he’d take a look to see if he could identify the source vehicle and perhaps find an alternate home for it.  He was happy to take a look, and he became quite animated when he looked into the dumpster.  He said the front end assembly dated to the early 1930s and perhaps came from a Ford Model A.  He also thought he could put it to good use, so we lifted it back out of the dumpster, hung it from the bucket of his tractor, and he hauled it home.

Keith said he has a friend who’s a wizard at identifying old car parts, so he hopes to get me a positive ID soon.  In the meantime, the front end of that long-lost car will soon be plying the roads of Sullivan once again.