WTB: NEED PART FAST!! 80s Continental fender vent Please HELP!!!

[AmpTrooper]

Howdy,
So, there is a long, sad and horrible story behind this but I wont bore ya with all that.
The end of the story ends with a shop that I may sue and a Linc that now needs repair. I however made a deal with a new friend to trade cars. I don't want to hand over a Linc missing parts. THe shop has already replaced most of what they ruined but no one can find this last part. What I need as soon as possible is one of the fender side vents. How they lost one I have no idea and I probably dont want to know. The only junk yard with a Linc that would work is about 2 hours away. I can't drive that far due to my prosthetic leg and bad hip. If someone could please please help me out with this you would be a hero!!!!
Thanks and God bless!
Amp

 

[tixer]

AmpTrooper! Welcome Back! Sorry to hear that the car seems to have fallen upon hard times. I hope you've been well, otherwise.

I wish I had that part for you, but I'm afraid I do not.

If you don't get many replies here, try shooting a message to Carlos, (LOD username: racebronco2) who has become a reliable source of used parts for all of us here. He's great.

 

[steve]

Post up the junk yard location, maybe someone who lives close by will see this and can get the part shipped to you.

 

[AmpTrooper]

AmpTrooper! Welcome Back! Sorry to hear that the car seems to have fallen upon hard times. I hope you've been well, otherwise.

I wish I had that part for you, but I'm afraid I do not.

If you don't get many replies here, try shooting a message to Carlos, (LOD username: racebronco2) who has become a reliable source of used parts for all of us here. He's great.

Hey, yeah it has been a while. Shortly after the last time I was on here i had a good friend die in a motorcycle accident while at a big Mad Max event in Australia . He was dressed as one of the guys from the first Mad Max and driving the a replica of the motorcycle that the character drove. He was drving on the same road as in the movie and at the same time in the evening with the sun just about to go past the horizon and coming up upon a small hill. At the same time the owner of the Mad Max museum was driving a replica of the big Mack truck from the first Mad Max movie and coming the opposite way. People thought they were actually trying to recreate the scene from the movie. What they didnt expect was that neither one of them saw the other and just like in the movie and at the same spot, at the same time, on the same hill and same vehicles, they hit each other. It was so bad that the people that saw had to be treated for shock. I had talked to him just a month before and told him to not go through with getting his motorcycle license. That I just felt bad about it. He thought it was just because of my accident so he did it anyways. He was a great guy! He loved people and was everyones friend! I went down to GA for his funeral. About 3 hours after I got a phone call from my wife telling me that I need to come back to IN soon as i could. She told me that my Mom is in the ER due to a hurt back. THey did a CAT scan and found that her breast cancer came back and it was worse. They found that her entire spine from the neck all the way down was full of cancer as was her hips, thighs, ribs, shoulders and three spots in her head. She told me that my Mom was not talking right anymore and cant remember things very well. THey think she may have had some small strokes. So, I get back to Indiana and my Mom looks a lot different then when I left a week before. I have been taking care of her everyday during the week ever since as she needs 24 hour care. She can still walk with assistance but, I feel bad that I can take her out to do things more because of my amputation and hip. We spend a lot of time with her in bed and me on the recliner talking, watching TV and taking naps here and there. So my car went to the shop the same week all this happened. I took it to a shop that was recommended by someone from the car shows. All that was wrong was a vacuum leak under the steering wheel. The next thing I know they are saying it is the distributor and things just went down hill from there. They ended up breaking my hood ornament off and my hood pull and they left it out in the weather and under a pine tree which ruined the color in the top and they got grease all over the inside and there was mold or something growing all over the car from it sitting under the pines. My beautiful Linc was ruined! I was so hurt and devastated. With everything else going on I just didn't have the time or strength to sue them. Otherwise I sure as hell would have. They would have lost easy as I had dated pics of everything. Oh, they also put and extra 200 miles on my car! WHat the heck were they dong driving it around. Kept telling me that it wasnt running yet. Obviously it was running! and the tops of the seat now have what looks like a sun burn on them. I dont know how I am going to fix the top and seats. I dont have money to do all kinds of work. I fixed everything else just with hard work. But it is still missing the drivers side fender vent. THe one closest to the door. Not sure how they broke and lost that but it looks like that is going to cost me $45 for a 5 inch piece of metal. Money I don't have. And I am just left with burnt seats and a dry burnt top. So much for trying to have something nice that my family and I can enjoy cruising in and going to car shows. Getting very use to being dumped on by life. Seems like ever since my accident in 2008 we have had nothing but crap happen to us over and over again. For one good thing that happens 50 bad things slap that one thing right down. Tired of it but, it is what it is. glad my wife and I have such a great relationship. Our strength together and with the Lord is what gets us through all of this and keeps us smiling no matter how hard things get! Sorry to give such a long account for my absence but, that is what has been going on and why I havent been around much. I hope i can pop in a little more often now the we have more of a routine. Probably will be doing more reading then posting for a while to try and get caught up with everything going on and new members and all. Feel free to shoot me a message anytime!