Many of you have heard this story from me before…
Feb, 1986: I rode my bicycle past a house (4828 Wexford Run Road, Marshall, PA)
and saw an old green 1958 Chrysler with a white roof… a white
-convertible- roof… and it was for sale. The owners were moving,
and they wanted to sell it before they left. I begged my parents to let me
spend the $1,600 on this running, inspected old convertible, with just some
minor rust in the quarters. They refused, saying it “would never be
worth anything”.
So, sadly I had to pass on the $1,600 1958 Chrysler 300D
convertible.
Auuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Despite my best efforts, and the help of some folks at the
300 Club, I have never found out what happened to that car.
-Dave
PS – I also miss my $50 1974 Dodge Dart (slant 6).
Owned it for three years as my ‘backup’ car for my job as a
delivery driver. I put gas in it only once – on the night we
attacked Iraq
during Desert Storm – and it never needed it after that. I swear
that car got 60 mpg. I had no title, no registration, a “T-Plate”
I took from a junkyard, no inspection, and worst of all, no radio. It
always started on the first turn of the key, even after sitting for
months. I ended up giving it away to some guy who asked me to sell him just
the back seat.
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