It was a l-o-o-o-n-g time ago when I was 17. There was a '32 Ford on Hungry Hill for sale - cheap. I went to see it---and it was a 3W coupe with a 59A-B flathead. I drove it - ran nicely. The price- almost out of my reach. $35 US Dollars That's right, thirty five dollars. Got it home. Someone then offered me a profit of over 100% for it - $75. Being young and even dumber then I am today, sold it. The guy ended up trying to chop the top - I graduated from HS, went to college, got drafted and that's when I lost track of the car. Did it get melted down for new Volkswagen's or Honda's or is it still around - not a clue.

Next - needed a car for my daughter for college, so found a 3-4 year old Granada coupe, 6cyl, 250 w/standard top loader. A retired local cop had bought it new so really didn't have a lot of miles on it, ~50K, but it looked like crap - all four corners had dings to pretty good size dents - evidently he had used the fenders and the rear bumper to help guide him into the garage after his regular afternoon "social hour(s)" at a local pub. I bought the car cheap, did the brakes, ball joints, added some new tires, straightened and painted it, drove it for a while JIC something blew - all, including the purchase price, for about $1000. My daughter drove it for 2 years, then she bought a Toyota p/u. This meant I now had a work car. This Granada was used for a weekly 800 mile work related round trip for almost 2 years, plus whatever other running around I did. I then sold it with 235K miles on it for $295, the engine was never apart, it didn't burn oil, the throw out bearing that squealed at 50K was still squealing. The guy that bought the car was still driving it 2 years later and loved it - even with that throwout bearing noise.