I hammered this out in a delirious haze, somewhere between consciousness and the oblivion of airplane sleep. A total zombie, stumbling through the words like a drunk in a dark alley. In my stupor, I managed to forget one crucial detail—giving credit where it's due. So let me snap out of it for a moment and do the right thing. Mike Lancaster, this one’s for you. Thanks, man. Sincerely, from the foggy depths of my half-asleep brain.
That was one great find. I'm going to ***ume that Mike Lancaster is the guy who found the picture. Thanks for showing us this, Ryan.
"Everything old, is new again" It's still unknown, just how many old cigar boxes in countless attics and ba*****ts, that are the current dark, vaults of incredible priceless photographs, of frozen moments of time, that captured the cool stuff from decades ago, that are still surfacing, to bring the past, to the present, to be alive again!
Bill was a member of the Early V8 Club Santa Rosa Ca in the early 1970 with that car it was Dark Blue lower in the back flathead power with loud pipes Vern Tardel might know more.
I talked to Vern about it probably 15 years ago now... He does remember the car and Bill, but has no idea what became of either...
The California plate says 1942 and there's an "A" ration sticker on the windshield. Why wasn't he enlisted? Home on leave? This is how my mind works with details sometimes and it makes me nuts. Andy
The Jalopy Journal
