A 53-year-old Forest Lake man died at his home sometime late Friday or early Saturday while working on an old car. Chief of Police Clark Quiring said officers were called to 20800 Ingersoll Ave. N. at 1 p.m. Saturday where they found the body of Thomas Carpender. He was found in a pasture area about 100 yards from the home where he had been working on a 1958 Chevrolet, the chief said.

Quiring said Carpender was last seen on Friday afternoon. Family members who returned home late Friday assumed he had left home to go north, the chief said. When a telephone from the home could not be found on Saturday, Quiring said Carpender's wife Barbara was able to locate the telephone near where her husband had died. He had driven his truck to the area where he was working which was behind a stand of trees and not visible from the house. Carpender has a number of antique Chevrolets which he had been working to restore, the chief said.

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death, the chief said.

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