Re: We found and spoke to a prior owner
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2016/4/19 21:57:21
We're lucky that our car has been owned since nearly new by my wife's family, her great grandfather bought it from a local lawyer who ordered it but found it was too much to handle (80 something yrs old and no power steering) and so traded it back in after just 2 or 3 days, and Grampa Ted traded a '49 Packard for this car. Here's a picture of Ted as a German Army soldier during the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1901. Google it, in that little war the Germans were good guys along with the US among others. He came to the US in 1903 and homesteaded in SW North Dakota in 1907. The original house still stands on the farm, though not used now.
Ted died in 1963 and that was the last year this car was licensed, after that it was used to chase cows and foxes, and eventually parked in the trees, then moved to the shed in the '70's. And that's where we pulled it out of in 2013, significantly beat up but not badly rusted.
That history is what makes this car worth fixing up and keeping. Too cool to part with now.
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Ted died in 1963 and that was the last year this car was licensed, after that it was used to chase cows and foxes, and eventually parked in the trees, then moved to the shed in the '70's. And that's where we pulled it out of in 2013, significantly beat up but not badly rusted.
That history is what makes this car worth fixing up and keeping. Too cool to part with now.
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