IN THIS TRACT, CHICKS AND DUCKS AND GEESE BETTER SCURRY LANCASTER TRUCK DRIVER RESTORES A 19TH CENTURY SURREY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Mike Duo's neighbors have pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles This page lists sports utility vehicles currently in production (as of April 2007), as well as past models. The list includes crossover SUVs, Mini SUVs, Compact SUVs and other similar vehicles. and compacts parked in their tract-home garages. He's got a buggy Refers to software that contains many flaws. Many in the software industry swear that bugs are inevitable, and perhaps they are right. As long as we work in the competitive, pressure-cooker environment of our high-tech world, products will more often than not be developed too hastily and . Duo, a truck driver, spent his spare time for two years restoring a 19th century horse-drawn carriage that he picked up when its previous owners were moving out of their Acton home. ``I like the old Western-style stuff. It's a part of history that's disappearing. It was a lot of fun putting it together,'' Duo, 40, said. All black, with metal-rimmed wooden-spoke wheels mounted on leaf springs, the buggy has front and rear seats and a half-top over the rear seat. Its previous owner told Duo that he got it in Lancaster, Pa., in the 1980s. When Duo found the buggy in 2001, it was sitting among weeds in an Acton front yard, gradually falling apart from Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley wind and sun. He spotted the buggy one day while driving through Acton. Its owner was in the process of moving out of his home, and Duo stopped and talked with him. ``He said if you want it, you can have it,'' said Duo. Duo, who has been restoring antique furniture Antique furniture is the term for collectible interior furnishings of considerable age; often its age, rarity, condition, utility, or other unique features makes the furniture desirable. as a hobby since he was a teenager, put the pieces into his pickup truck and drove them home to Lancaster. After letting the buggy sit in his back yard for a while, he brought it into his garage, dismantled it, and primed and repainted the desiccated des·ic·cate v. des·ic·cat·ed, des·ic·cat·ing, des·ic·cates v.tr. 1. To dry out thoroughly. 2. To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture. See Synonyms at dry. 3. oak. He removed the tattered tat·tered adj. 1. Torn into shreds; ragged. 2. Having ragged clothes; dressed in tatters. 3. a. Shabby or dilapidated. b. Disordered or disrupted. vinyl top and seat covers, added in a previous restoration, and stitched more authentic replacements by hand. For the top he used oil canvas. For the seat covers he used leather. The seat cushions are padded with straw and the seat backs with the horsehair horse·hair n. 1. The hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail. 2. Cloth made of the hair of horses. horsehair Noun that came from the original seats. Now that the buggy's finished, Duo doesn't have a horse to pull it, and he plans to sell it. ``It came a long way from being basically firewood,'' Duo said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) If he had horses, Mike Duo could take you out in style in his 19th century carriage that he authentically restored. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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