Today, he has already driven his truck to pick up loads from two big home-improvement stores and a door store. "It's gonna be a retirement community with a nine-hole golf course. "This all started when I retired from the 'Reader's Digest' nine years ago," said Driver, who worked for the national publication for 38 years and was one of its four vice-presidents of sales. He discovered it while he was hitchhiking between home and Middle Tennessee State University. That's the key, you gotta dig."ĭriver, who was born in Nashville and moved to Manchester when he was in the eighth grade, found and purchased the property in the 1960s. You never know what you may uncover when you lift up a tarp. "It averages 30 to 40 cents on the dollar. Doors, windows, sheet rock, plywood, pretty much any interior and exterior doors," Carlton said.
"I bought about 80 percent of my material from here.
I have repaired my home for cheap here," said Sally, who refers to Tink as "the unofficial mayor of Gossburg."Īlso here this afternoon, poking into sheds and checking out piles of lumber and concrete blocks, is James Carlton of Murfreesboro, who has been remodeling a ranch-style house over the past two years. Neighbors said, 'You need to go to Tink.' This is my fourth trip. Sally, who moved into a house in Beech Grove a year ago, drops by with a list of items her boyfriend asked her to try and find. "The prices are way below everywhere else, a lot cheaper, about one-third of normal cost. "My nephew and niece told me about this place," said Thomas. They've been several times before and purchased a washer and dryer, a lawn mower and flooring. This October afternoon shoppers Lenny and Thomas Conry of Tracy City are looking here, there and everywhere for lumber and whatever else might strike their fancy. Everything is fully guaranteed and really, really cheap," says Driver, 74, who has about 30 buildings on his property bulging with, well, you name it, he's got it, all low-clearance items, which he trucks in from home improvement stores around the midstate. "People come from everywhere within a hundred miles. Whatever you need for a house, it's here somewhere. Here at the end of Opossum Paw Road in tiny Gossburg, about seven miles south of Bradyville and three miles north of Beech Grove, Tink Driver's got everything.ĭoors, windows, weedeaters, flooring, tiles, plywood, bathtubs, concrete blocks, Jacuzzi tubs, vanity tops, cabinets, carpet, appliances, refrigerators, and, yes, even the kitchen sink.Īnd it's all for sale, and the prices are right.
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KEN BECK photo Manchester's energetic Tink Driver offers an astonishing array of goods, ranging from building materials to appliances, at low prices at Driver Sales on Opossum Paw Road in the Coffee County community of Gossburg.