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If you are busy, delete this story. If not, I'd like to tell it. This weekend my neighbor comes walking down the driveway carrying something heavy and tells me that his friend knows I like things Mopar and he sends by this gift. It is a cutaway section of a 331 Chrysler Firepower cylinder head showing the shape of the combustion chamber and the valve heads and sparkplug with the springs on the top. It is attached to a board and has the advertising message showing the superiority of the design. It was a dealer showroom sales aid from the early fifties. I am delighted to have such a gift and I tell him that thirty years ago when I was employed as a District Manager for Plymouth, my hokey dealer in Lower Lake CA had the same thing in his dealership plus hundreds of pounds of old junk and books and stuff that was totally unnecessary in 1967 to sell cars. &nbs!
p;The place was a mess and I was going to take his franchise away if he didn't clean up the pigsty of a showroom. I scheduled a cleanup party with myself, Sandy, his wife and him. We took 3 truck loads of junk to the dump in an old Studebaker truck that was so loaded in the back that the front wheels could be turned with fingertips on a truck with manual steering. It was then that my neighbor remembered that his pal said that this engine head had been found in a dump in Lake County, CA!!! Imagine....34 years later, it's now cluttering up my showroom.
Larry Jett 950 Woodside Road Suite 4 Redwood City, CA 94061 |
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