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Cool find today when ripping the carpet out
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Cool, that is a piece of history. All I found was 3 quarters from 1967 under mine... you beat me by $49.25.
I just actually talked to the guy from the check. It’s such a unique name that it made a google search easy and he is here in my own state. He owned the car from 1972-1976 and said he drove the car all over the country while he was in the Air Force. He bought it in North Dakota he said. Pretty cool history. He knew exactly what it looked like and told me all about racing it and how fast it was. You could almost hear him smiling through the phone as he was telling me about it. So awesome. He thinks the car was bought new in North Dakota but he can’t remember the name of the guy he bought it from other than what they called him, C.J.
Thats cool. Pretty rare to get a conversation like that these days.
It gets me closer to finding out where the car sold new anyway.
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With his Social Security number on the check, I'd advise that you EDIT that picture!
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That's like my daily driver, a 94 Dodge Caravan that used to be an Ameritech service van. While giving it a thorough cleaning, I found the window sticker under the large piece of plywood that's in the back. Still in one piece but stiff & wrinkled from getting wet, but still readable.
I think that is priceless!! I think we all would love to talk to some of the previous owners of our cars, (I know I would) just to know what the car had been through in its long life. Very cool find on the previous owner, and having the guts to give them a call!!
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Thats ffn cool!
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That's VERY cool.
You now have a chunk of the cars' story and that's a HUGE part of what this hobby is all about.
Each one of these cars have histories - their stories - that need to accompany the car as it passes
through the hands of its' stewards in years to come.
He is going to look to see if he can find some old pictures of the car but he doesn’t know for sure he has any. He talked about rowing the gears and said he always loved that white shifter ball and how it looked with the two tone blue interior. He asked if I could send him some pictures of it and I told him I hated to because it was just starting disassembly for restoration and it wouldn’t look the same as he remembers but I did it anyway. He said the last he saw if the car was in Goldsboro NC in 1977 and that the guy he sold it to had passed away he heard. This car has been off the road since the eighties at the latest by the looks of it. I would about guarantee it. I filed a title history request for research purposes with the state but I have no idea when or if I will hear from it.
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That is a cool story ! Thanks for sharing it with us !
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Awesome story.
He says this is it. It seems darker blue and the grill seems darker. May just be a bad old picture though. My car is QQ1 Electic Blue. This pic just seems darker
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That is a neat story. As for divulging the ‘history’ with the current owners of my old rides, could be too much information for them, lol, especially the antics with my dates at the outdoor theaters and ‘parking’ spots we had. One occasion in my Cuda parked at the old quarry swimming hole, it got to be a chilly night and the widows fogged completely, all of them. Then saw a dim light – it was a cop with his flashlight tapping on the window “Is anyone in there?” The delay with responding gave us enough time to put our swimming attire back on and scramble to the front seats before I rolled down the window. He said “You think I was born yesterday kid?” He insisted we leave immediately. Then there was another time…I’ll spare the story. My old rides were not just all about their looks and giddy-up. Great post I ran off on; but prompted some memories I hadn’t thought about for years.
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