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Mechanic finds batch of giant, unusable 'car parts' in dumpster, then realizes he's rich after cleaning off dirt
wnd.com ^ | 4/12/2022 | warner todd houston

Posted on 04/13/2022 9:01:33 AM PDT by rktman

After finding a dumpster full of unwanted "car parts," a Connecticut car mechanic traded a great story and a little elbow grease for an opportunity to save the work of a historic artist and earn an incredible windfall to boot.

In September 2017, Jared Whipple, a mechanic from Waterbury, Connecticut, got a call from a friend telling him of a strange find in an abandoned barn in Watertown. Whipple's pal saw the dumpster of "car parts" and instantly thought Whipple would like to have them, the Connecticut Post reported Friday.

When the amiable mechanic arrived on the scene, he found not steel and plastic car parts but images of car parts painted onto huge canvases. There was one after another, some tattered and covered in grime from being discarded but all still brightly colored and full of graphic panache.

Whipple found a dumpster full of 6-foot-tall canvases featuring paintings of gleaming chromes, mag wheels, stretching pipes and wild, graphic images in eye-popping colors of blues, reds and yellows.

But what did he have, he wondered. Whipple immediately started looking on the internet to see if he could identify who painted the amazing canvases. And it wasn't long before he learned that the paintings were crafted by Washington-born artist Francis Hines, who died in 2016 at age 96.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: abstractart; art; connecticut; francishines; jaredwhipple; waterbury; watertown
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Nice. From the pictures of the dumpster, it was a LOT of "parts".
1 posted on 04/13/2022 9:01:33 AM PDT by rktman
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> a friend telling him of a strange find in an abandoned barn ... <

The barn might have been abandoned, but I’m guessing that someone still owns the property, and everything on it. Put that stuff back, Mr. Whipple!


2 posted on 04/13/2022 9:06:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: rktman

Nice “barn find” in a dumpster. I wish I could get a call like that. Good for him, to preserve the artist’s work.


3 posted on 04/13/2022 9:10:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rktman

I met an electrician in a line to enter an estate sale. He made a habit of going to them, because people would have things on sale he could use in his business at a fraction of what he would pay otherwise.


4 posted on 04/13/2022 9:14:49 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: rktman

5 posted on 04/13/2022 9:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Leaning Right

Didn’t read the article, did you.

‘The lucky mechanic built a large amount of research on the artist and even began contacting the master’s friends and family. Eventually, he found Hines’ sons, who gave him their blessing to keep their father’s work.’


6 posted on 04/13/2022 9:24:25 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Retain Mike

Especially obsolete circuitbreakers


7 posted on 04/13/2022 9:26:18 AM PDT by lewislynn (Have you heard the latest 2020 election fraud news on Fox? Neither has anyone else.)
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To: Retain Mike

I have bought some of my best hand tools at estate sales. Especially if it is the second day of a two day sale. The company contracted only gets a commission on the things they actually sell. So, on the last day they are really motivated to get rid of anything no matter what price you offer them.

The other thing is old tools from the 1950s are made so much better than stuff today.


8 posted on 04/13/2022 9:26:32 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: chaosagent

“Didn’t read the article, did you.”


What, and break 25 years of FR tradition?


9 posted on 04/13/2022 9:27:32 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: chaosagent

> Didn’t read the article, did you. <

Of course not. Instead I followed Free Republic tradition. Once you’ve been here for five years, you need only read the excerpt before commenting. And once you’ve been here for ten years, you need only glance at the title first.


10 posted on 04/13/2022 9:28:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Red Badger

In the article there are a couple pics.


11 posted on 04/13/2022 9:31:21 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Leaning Right

LOL. I found some nice abandoned computers and cash in my neighbor’s apartment. He wasn’t home at the time, but I wonder why he didn’t want them?


12 posted on 04/13/2022 9:36:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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“I found some nice abandoned computers and cash in my neighbor’s apartment. He wasn’t home at the time, but I wonder why he didn’t want them?”


Gotta ask - what were you doing there when he wasn’t home?


13 posted on 04/13/2022 9:43:35 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: PGR88

Forget post #13. I just got the joke. (doh!)


14 posted on 04/13/2022 9:44:33 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: Leaning Right

Mr. Whipple says: Please don’t squeeze the Charmin’
(a TV commercial from over 50 years ago)


15 posted on 04/13/2022 9:45:27 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Leaning Right
And once you’ve been here for ten years, you need only glance at the title first.

At twenty years, you can just post random thoughts irrespective of the article.

16 posted on 04/13/2022 9:48:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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17 posted on 04/13/2022 10:05:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: IYAS9YAS

At 25 years you can just mumble incoherently and then run for president.


18 posted on 04/13/2022 10:07:05 AM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: rktman

This somewhat reminds me of the story of a guy who found boxes and boxes of either Disney or Warner Bros or Hanna-Barbera animation cels in whichever’s dumpster. This could have happened 20-25 years ago, I can’t recall. He gathered them all up and began selling them probably on ebay. These cels go for more than trivial money, and after he had sold maybe $350K worth, either Disney or Warners sued him for theft...as if had broken into their building(s) and stole the stuff. And he had to go through a very lengthy and obviously costly lawsuit defending himself. It was a multi-year and multi-hundred thousand dollar effort on his part.


19 posted on 04/13/2022 10:20:22 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Leaning Right

After 15 years you only have to read the title before making comment.

And NEVER spell check


20 posted on 04/13/2022 10:22:55 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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