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02-15-2014 06:43 PM #9
It was fun to chat with a young man that was polishing the bright red '60's style '29 roadster in the first group, around 18/19/20 in the pictures. I commented about the pure '60's style, and he was eager to share that the car was built in the late '50's by his Grandpa, "...using a cuttin' torch and a stick welder." He said that the rear wheels had spacers that had been cut out with a cutting torch, and when they went through the car they elected to leave them. During the early to mid '60's the car was in several magazine features, and was quite popular. Later the car was sold due to health reasons, and was gone for about 15 years. The young man said that his Dad saw an advertisement in a car magazine offering the car, recognized it as the one his Dad had built, and bought it back. His Dad was gone, but the car became a father/son (really son/grandson) project. The interior was ratty, but enough remained for the interior guy to know how it looked, and as they went through it they only did upgrades for safety, like boxing the frame that had remained open. Everything else they replaced with like items, and brought it back to the glory days status. A really neat story.Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.





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Right after I posted yesterday it was down again, I don't think it's getting better.
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