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Yesterday I registered the 1948 2262 Deluxe sedan I bought a month ago on June 24th. It has been a while since the car was officially on the road. If the blue car showing 32,499 miles rings a bell I would like to get some true history...... before I make up my own. Yeah, the '56 Willys pickup that hauled surveyors and dynamite on the New York State Thruway was mine.
This car came from an open air museum in the McKees Rock area, near Pittsburgh, Pa. It was sold with a few others to pay nursing home expenses, as the story goes. Two Packards may have been sold along with two 1960's Lincoln convertibles, one with a tree going in it, and at least one Rolls or Bentley car of the Silver Cloud or S-1 type. The car was sold on Ebay in 2010 to the person I bought it from in western New York. He did a lot of mechanical work and some rechroming, though he never registered it.
I am guessing the car spent the 1990's and early 2000's benevolently neglected.
One oddity is a Hoffbauer dealer sticker on the rear bumper. In the 1980's that was a Buick dealer less than a mile from me in Brockport, New York, near Rochester.
The car has a cormorant and a spotlight. It appears to have had a gentle life at least during the first 30 years, which were the roughest for me. So being the same age we'll both probably see 100 years, together.
I had been looking for a Clipper. It wasn't until I bought the car that I realized I had one, the doors are just thicker.
If anyone remembers this car I'd love to know a little of its past.
Bernie