And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
After my father died, my mother bought this exact model in burgundy with black upholstery. I thought it odd at the time, but it turns out I didn't know my mother. When she was 18 she had a 1938 Ford roadster coup convertible with a rumble seat. When I saw the pictures of her and that Ford, it was a revelation. Mom, mother of five, and a good French Canadian Catholic (the real Catholics, none of this Irish/Ital nonsense), was a party girl at heart.
A treasure once you sink $50k into it. It might cut about $20k off to go resto mod and put a LS1 in it.
ReplyDeleteThose snow tires really add something to the look...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing! I would go with Artie below, but a Rat Rod, less resto expense.
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ReplyDeleteDamn...Wish that was my barn. Rat rod or full restore, I could be persuaded to move either way.
ReplyDeleteBy the looks of it it might be George Maharis's garage.
ReplyDeleteAfter my father died, my mother bought this exact model in burgundy with black upholstery. I thought it odd at the time, but it turns out I didn't know my mother. When she was 18 she had a 1938 Ford roadster coup convertible with a rumble seat. When I saw the pictures of her and that Ford, it was a revelation. Mom, mother of five, and a good French Canadian Catholic (the real Catholics, none of this Irish/Ital nonsense), was a party girl at heart.
ReplyDelete5 years later: For sale $32,000. $60,000 invested! My loss is your gain!
ReplyDeleteIt's somebodies treasure but not mine. Corvette - the most uncomfortable car I have ever ridden in.
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