Nate explains how he got the truck: I had a blue 1969 Cougar convertible, standard—not automatic. About fifteen years ago a guy was driving by when I was working on the Hunter place. He got talking to me and he fell right in love with the car. He wanted to fix it up. He asked me what I wanted for it and I said, “I don’t know. I don’t really want to sell it.” He said, “I got something I could swap you for it.” I’ve always like to swap and barter with people. I’d rather have something in place of something instead of just to sell something and have me just blow the money. I could have sold the car for a couple hundred bucks, and just blew the money and never got nothing out of it. He wanted to swap it for an old Ford four-wheel drive F-500. I think it’s a ‘41 or ‘42. It’s got a flat head into it and a standard transmission. It’s a nice looking old truck. Now I still can drive by and still see that old truck. 

Nate explains how he got the garage: Me and my father, Nathan Sr., moved that garage from the area around Fall Creek School in Ithaca, back in 1984 or ‘85. I was about 17. Dad had an advertisement in the Ithaca Journal and a lady called. The ad said we tore buildings down, but Dad wanted the garage for storage. We gave her a price on tearing it down and said, “You know we can jack that off the foundation and move it.” I said to Dad, “I’m game. I’ve never done it.” Dad said, “I have.” It was the first one I ever moved. We borrowed a couple house jacks from Norm Ted and Ithaca Renting. Norm moved houses for a living. We braced the garage up with some two-by-sixes and some two-by-eights and jacked it up right off the foundation. I think we used four jacks, one on each corner. We used Dad’s 1964 National 1600 series truck. It’s got an 18 foot bed in the back. We backed the truck underneath the garage and lowered it down. We strapped it to the frame with chains and binders. If you tried to do that now they would throw you right in jail. It took us about three, maybe four hours to get it on the truck and then brought it up here in about an hour. We backed it in, jacked it up and pulled the truck out. It was off the truck and right where it’s setting down. We had it all done by 3:00 in the afternoon.