" Four doors and?" " The front seat." "The seat." " Maybe the roof, but they all need fixing." "$400" "I sell the doors $100 each." "I'm giving you the seat for $100, the doors for $100, the top for $100, so..." "It's not the sports model." "I always sell doors $100 each, windows and bumpers, $100 each." "Just one price so I don't mix'em up." "OK." "The price is more than reasonable, at least, it seems to me." "Say you make it $300, and I haul the stuff away myself." "I'll need a trailer for the four doors..." "You've got $600 or $700 worth of stock." "Four doors at $100 each..." "They're not worth much." "A Coronet..." "They're not worth much to you cause you've found them." "A guy who needs'em, who scrapped his door and needs another, $100 he's laughing." "Same, for a fender or a bumper or rear window." "I make everybody happy." "I'll think it over." "Got any Dodges?" "Sure, down the first row, there's lots." "Ok, we'll keep in touch." "I've got visitors, gotta wash my hands." "Bizarre: 4000 cars Slumber in My Back Yard" "Gotta chew each mouthful 20 times to stay healthy." "I'm heading over by the church in Longueuil to pick up a table and chairs and an end table a guy called me to pick up." "So tomorrow night's my..." "After that I often drop by the Value Mart to buy some clothes, shoes, anything..." "Wednesday after 5 I jump in my car and eat either Chinese or a smoked meat." "Then I buy stuff at the auction for a buck, two bucks, 25 bucks, 50 bucks..." "After that it's 11." "At 11" "I stop at Burger King ind have a soup" "Then I come back and go to bed." "Next night, Thursday that is," "I drive to La Plaine." "That's farther." "I eat a submarine there with lots of stuff in it." "Tomaitoes and, well, lots of stuff, more than at other places." "Then there's the auction and I buy more junk." "Friday I go to the auction in Longueuil." "On the way I stop for Chinese." "Usually I pick up my girl, but I dumped her so that's, that." "So then..." "I forgot Wednesday I'm taking a lady to the auction with me She phoned me." "I had a yellow chair in my truck." "She saw it." "Sho called me and said, I want your chair." "She should've called me sooner." "Sho asked to go to the auction." "So I'll pick her up aind we'll go together." "Friday I'm going to Longueuil." "That's where I picked up the dress from my... from my... my son's wife." "On her 25th wedding anniversary," "She bought a real chic pink dress," "So I'll pick it up for this new lady." "She'll be like - what do you call those girls that accompany you When you get married?" "Then..." "Saturday night..." "Sometimes I go to La Plaine, or else I go there..." "Sometimes I go dance at the Metropolitain up north." "I don't stay long." "I prefer to go to Longueuil because I can stay out later." "Sundays always change." "I go to the flea markets or see my family." "One or the other." "Monday I start the whole system all over." "It's always the same." "That's my life." "I collect stuff, sell stuff..." "You never get lonely here by yourself?" " Pardon?" "Never lonely?" "Never, I don't have time." "It's always nice and sunny." "Even when it rains it's fine." "There's always something to do." "You have collectingitis." "I've always collected stuff." "Ever since I was a kid, and it keeps getting worse." "It's a disease, like alcohol for tome." "My disease is I collect everything." "Well, I enjoy it." "Instead of spending a buck for a bottle of beer," "I spend a buck to buy something" "Cars." "Cars, one after the other." "It's ideal here for withdrawing from society" "Yeah. it's quiet." "You always feel healthy, you're never sick." "There's nobody to bother you, you're at the end of the road." "It's Ideal to enjoy peace and quiet and have time to plan your evenings." "Do you see yourself as marginal?" "Marginal?" "Yes." "There's nobody like me, no one who can do the work I do." "It's good for everybody." "It's..." "I'm the only one." "Who does it this way Others use electricity or by fire." "I do everything by hand, always." "You don't care What other people think of you?" "About what you do?" "Ever since I started people say, You're crazy to do this" "So I've come to realize, it's true that I'm crazy, but it's nice being crazy like this." "Because If they were in my shoes, they'd see" "I'm not that crazy." "But looking at me from outside they figure it's ridiculous." "That's how, it is." "For me, it's not crazy It's a good life that thay can't know what it's like." "Colmor Auto In St Amable." "A Cadillac?" "Yes. come In!" "Yes?" "Yeah, I still have It." "Yup." "That's fine." "Yeah." "Thank you" "Did he come in?" "Come in!" "Come in!" "Come In!" " I wasn't sure." " I was shouting." "I'm not gonna come in if I'm not sure." "How are you?" " I'm fine." " Good." "I came to seå you." "I want to see your differentials." "Yeah." "How much is a differential for my Falcon?" "$200." "Ok, I'll go see." "Fine." "Dî you have those little cars?" "Remember thoee little metal cars, Dinky Toys?" "I don't know tho names, but I have lots of little cars in the drawer." "I'm looking for little cars for my electric trains." "Are you busy?" "No, we're not busy" "Good, perfect" "Here's another." "Another one there." "I can cut it in half." "A bit bigger." "That's the size I'm looking for." "Well, I dunno..." "No point there, they're too small." "Just small plastic ones?" "Like this?" "Tnis one's no good?" "No, its too big." "Too big, too small." " It's cause I have a scale." " I'll put'em in tht grinder." "It's my scale." "There's nothing here." "It's all the same stuff in tht other one." " Small ones" " No." "Nothing else?" "Not that I know." "Somebody was here before me, huh?" "Somebody was here before?" " Well..." " Sure, that's normal." "Right." "Ok, I'll let you work." "Thanks for coming." "So you'll check..." "I was here last year but I haven't been back." "Is there a three-speed differential for my 60 Falcon?" "I think there's only two-speeds." " They're all twos?" " Yeah." "It's like I'm driving a big tractor at 52 mph." "The engine turns too fast." "You know." "It's missing a third speed." "Ford forgot to put in a third speed." "Well use bigger tires!" "Your motor will turn slower." "It'll force." "What'll it change an inch more?" "Use 14 instead of 13." "14 rims?" "Yeah, 14 tires." " I have 62" " What's that?" "The Falcon must be in it." "I went to see George You know George?" "George who died?" "No way." "He played music in Longueuil." "I danced there often." "He died." "Are we talking about, the same George?" "Louis-George in Beloeil." "It's not the same George." "Alright." "We're looking for..." "Lots of pages, huh?" " They're later models." " Come on!" "That's Buick, we want Falcon." "It has different models..." " Meteor..." "There's more than one car." "Yeah, it has all the models." "There's one column for Falcon." " I see it here." "521" " There." "You see, Falcon Comet." "All the way to here." "All these pages are for Falcons." "The two-speed transmission!" "Come in!" "Sorry for screaming In your ears." "Every model, every year." "10 or 20 pages, 25 pages for each." "It has your car and all the others." "Just out of curiosity, I'll see if..." "There are lots of cars." "Thing is it doesn't show all the parts for my car." "I'll think it over." "I'll put this back." "I'll go check for a differential." "Do you have anything in a four?" "A four-cylinder?" "There's plenty out back." "I don't want half a car, I want a whole four." "Look out here, they're all complete." "Out this way, they're complete." "Minus the radiators I stripped." "I'll take a wander." " Fine." "See you later." "It smells good, like smoke." "I made a fire this morning" "With logs and some maple..." "Maple boards." " You're always healthy?" " Always." "The secret is to work." "You can't stop." "Same with me, I'm always working."