[RKDinOKC]

Sister lived in Rolla Mo for years. Got tired of the snow and moved to Harlingen TX. Seems thats where a LOT of Missourites winter. After several years in TX she moved back to Rolla. Her daughter bought a huge ranch with enough apartments for the ranch hands that my sister and here four kids each had their own house. Kind of a family compound. The ranch was originally a hog farm, the owner my niece bought it from used the big hog barn to restore cars and the restorer staff stayed in the apartments.

Kinda like a 356 restoration place I visited in Tulsa that a local PCA member had a speedster and a coupe restored at. It was a family business. Driving in the place looked like a chicken farm (which it had been). The parents lived in the main house, each of the two brothers and their families lived in ranch hand housing on the property. The huge hen house was their shop and car storage. The equipment barn for the ranch was full of boxes and boxes of parts. From the outside it looked like it was still a chicken farm. It was quite a shock to walk into the hen house and see all the machine tools, paint booth, cars in progress, and finished cars. There were shelves used to hold entire cars like bunk beds along one wall. Not only did they have quite a few customer cars, the brothers each had a speedter, a coupe, and an original AC Cobra. They learned their trade from their father whom built duesenbergs.