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The one that got away

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by double nickel, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. blown49
    Joined: Jul 25, 2004
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    blown49
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    1948 Ford 5-passenger coupe, dark green, lowered, skirts, duals, flatty, 3-speed, and 13,000 miles for $500.00.

    I was a paper boy and saved all my earnings to buy this thing. Told the guy I had the money and he said I could have it in two weeks.

    Christmas eve I'm driving down Main street in Dayton, Ohio and the most beautiful, black '52 chopped chev with a Carson top is parked right in front of Lowes theater. Couldn't take my eyes off of it but when I looked up there was an old Dodge stopped in front of me. Hit the brakes and nose dived into his rear. Totaled my dad's Plymouth. He had just ordered a new Ford and his trade in for the Plymouth was $500.00. Had to give my money to dad and start saving again so missed out on the coupe.

    BTW it was 1955 and I can still see that chopped Chev convertable sitting in front of that theater with all the marquee lights shining on it even though the theater is long gone and that was almost 52 years ago.
     
  2. My dad's bought new '70 Gran Prix, one of 300-odd manual trans cars built, also odd in that it had a 400, no vinyl top, and no power toys. I drove the thing a couple years before he got mad and up and sold it for $700... that I could have afforded at the time. Even had the frigging protecto-plate, the dealer invoice, and so on.

    But it runs in the family. My grandfather had two early 30's Auburns during WWII - one a dual-cowl phaeton - just everyday cars then. And in the early '50s, he told us about the Tucker that was on a car lot for sale for the princely sum of $800 - a lot then, but in retrospect he could have hung onto any of those cars with a little effort.

    My dad had a cherry original '38 Studebaker in '65. Bought a new 283 Impala that got traded on the Gran Prix, sold the Stude to some local folks.. that car's still around, but they finally went street rod on it. And in looking at cars in '70, my dad considered a Dodge Challenger or Plymouth 'Cuda, probably would have been a 383-4 speed and worth a small fortune today - not what a Hemi car brings, but even the 318 Cudas aren't cheap anymore.

    Instead, we have a nice electric refrigerator from about 1940 downstairs.



    And I've made up for it since, the rusty, shitty '53 Skylark I saved, the '58 DeSoto ragtop I saved, lots of other cars I've nabbed out of junkyards.. I still miss one now and then - the one that kills me is a '46 Ford ragtop complete body with top bows and doors and not in that bad of shape that might have cost us $100 and I just never found the damn thing because of the growth - until someone else bought it. There were plenty of other 46-8 Fords there to knock a sedan body off and plop this body on.
     

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