Jessica - 2012-07-11 9:27 PM Amazing work, Raff. I can't believe how this car has transformed into something beautiful, and she isn't even done yet. You are a master.

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roadkillontheweb - 2010-06-27 11:52 PM

The story behind the car might have just got a little more interesting.
I hate to bring up anything political on this forum but I thought this was interesting.

I got an email from someone that had read that my old Desoto Aventurer convertible was sold new at the Hollywood Perkins Desoto dealership in Wilmington Deleware. Following is the email.

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"Hi,
Just saw your article about your Desoto. I was searching for info about my Grandfather who died 2 months after I was born. His name was Colonel James F Hollywood, co-owner of the dealership you spoke of. I am trying to find some old pictures of his dealership. It is now a beaten up motorcycle club in what is now the worst part of Wilmington. Let me know if I can help you with any information. My Grandfather employed Joe Bidens father and uncle there in the 50's."

I was sceptical so I did a Wiki search on Joe and this was in the information about him.

"Biden's father had been very well-off earlier in his life, but had suffered several business reverses by the time Biden was born, and for several years the family had to live with Biden's maternal grandparents, the Finnegans. When the Scranton area went into economic decline during the 1950s, Biden's father could not find enough work. In 1953, the Biden family moved to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, where they lived for a few years before moving to a house in Wilmington, Delaware. Joe Biden Sr. then did better as a used car salesman, and the family's circumstances were middle class"

So I would say that the information is credible, and the VPs dad worked at the desoto dealership when joe was a teenager. in another article the Vice president stated "Joe Jr. learned a number of lessons during his father’s lean years that he regularly cites in speeches and interviews. In his autobiography, he tells the story of his father quitting a job as sales manager for an auto dealership because the owner, who liked to reward his employees and customers with silver dollars, decided to amuse himself at the dealership’s Christmas party by spilling out a bucket of silver dollars on the dance floor to watch his workers scramble to scoop up the coins. Joe Sr. gathered up his wife and walked out, never to return." So it appears from this he was a sales manager at Hollywood Perkins? It is possible that Joe SR was involved in the sale of this car.

Just some interesting information! No political flamewar please!

raffaplymouth - 2012-07-27 12:10 AM

intriguing history of this car ... I wonder if he had sold the car .. there were other employees of this dealer ?? i dont see phopto attacched ...