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The
old man I bought my car ('60 DeSoto) from knew nothing about it. He had it
for several years and drove it around, so I would have thought he would have
known a thing or two about it. He advertised it in the local newspaper as
a "1960 Dodge Desoda" When I went to look at it, he proceeded to tell me
that it was the last year of the Desoda models. He knew nothing about
DeSotos.....or mopars in general.
It
may be that some of these "know it alls" that find us at car shows have talked
to know-nothing owners of 'forwardlook cars' and assume we are just as
stupid. Everyone thinks my car has a hemi and they knew someone
that had one EXACTLY like it. It took me a few months to realize this was
impossible, as rare as 1960 DeSotos were, even when new. With only 26K
produced, that's just not likely (that comes to 520 per state!...if divided
evenly).
The
odd-factor is one thing that sets our cars apart from the slew of fords and
chevys.....and I gotta think that is one of the fun parts of owning one of these
forwardlook cars.
Robert, '60
Adventurer
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