Hot Rods Are you searching for a long lost car? Got the VIN? If so, we need to talk.

Jeff, I just sent you a different VIN story.....

 

I don't believe I received it. Did you PM or email it?

*EDIT- Found it in my email!

 

I'd love to know what happened to my mother's shoebox ford convertible. I have a copy of the registration and a picture that I found the day after she passed away. She had kept the pic and registration in her safe deposit box for quite some time apparently. I could post a picture of the registration card also. The car was in the Bethesda Md area.
Sent you a pm with more in depth version of story.

 

My experience was a little different. I was on the other end of a long lost car find a couple years ago.

I had just completed a numbers matching restoration on a very pretty 69 plymouth road runner, when a member of a group effort for finding the car contacted me.

The original owner had the road runner in high school, He sold the car in 73-74? Anyways, he had not seen the car in 40 years, he lost track of it as he had traded it in to a dealership and didn't have any sort of a starting point. He had been actively searching for 7 years as a bucket list sort of goal.

Well, I can tell you it was an incredible thing to be a part of. Beings I did the restoration work myself, I was very intimately familiar with the car. I had unknowingly reversed 40 years of alterations and decay, returning the car back to the exact way this man was dreaming of finding his car.

It was a numbers matching buggy, I had to take it back to original. I just assumed I was doing it for myself, lol!

But this guy, man... When I spoke to him on the phone for the first time, I think the guy was actually crying on the phone. He was so happy with the idea that his car had not only survived time but it was alive and well, freshly restored and still sporting original engine, trans, everything.

I liked the car a lot, but I knew he liked it more, he had more reason, he had history with it.

I sold it to him and yes I was fair about it. We are friends now, although he resides in another state. He sends christmas cards, he txts me, he sends me pictures of the car.


Not exactly hamb-worthy. But it's a true story bro.

lol