Ross wrote:
Just 50 short years ago today my mother drove me in her '69 Plymouth Fury to answer an ad in the Baltimore Evening Sun. A local teacher advertised a 1950 Packard for sale and we went to look at it. It was a Super with a hood about a mile long and had the requisite Cormorant hood ornament. Mother assured him that although I was only 14 I knew how to drive (having driven a 49 Dodge endlessly around the fields of our farm). A short trip around the private school grounds and I was sold. The $400 purchase price made a huge dent in the life savings of someone pulling in $1.65 an hour on weekends.
From this vantage point I can say the investment was worth it in a still unfolding lifetime of fun, skill building, friends, and perpetual time travel as I daily stand with feet in two very different eras. I am very thankful.