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The list of my radio & TV collection!

@ RadioSvit, it will be for sale when they can pry it from my cold dead hands.

I wanted this as my first car (this actual car). Had a chance to buy it from the guy that I worked part time for. Dad wouldn't let me buy it because I was in college at the time, and he thought I would spend too much time tinkering with it. Fast forward a few years, the guy actual gives it to me, but my wife doesn't want me to have it. I put it in the garage anyway and put up with a month of her not talking to me (or much else either).

Some dents, a lot of rust, the interior, engine and transmission need too be rebuilt, but it does run. I had stripped the original paint job and 2 additional paint jobs from it, to the bare metal, and put a coat of primer on it about 23 years ago. My job had me working much overtime so I really haven't had a chance to touch it in 20 years and it is buried in my garage. But I will be starting on it this summer or fall.

History repeating itself:

Dad probably wouldn't let me buy the car because when he was young, he had a chance to buy a 1936 Cadillac V16 Roadster for his first car. His dad said NO, went out and bought him a Model A Ford, and told the mechanic to make it so the car couldn't do more than 30 miles per hour. Grandpa knew Dad well!!

"Do Justly, love Mercy and walk humbly with your God"- Micah 6:8
"Let us begin to do good"- St. Francis

Best Regards, 

MrFixr55


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I'm still on the floor laughing! - by terrylett - 01-19-2019, 12:58 PM
462ron - by 462ron - 02-16-2022, 10:22 AM
RE: The list of my radio & TV collection! - by MrFixr55 - 03-04-2023, 10:53 PM
462ron - by 462ron - 03-05-2023, 09:53 AM
462ron - by 462ron - 03-05-2023, 11:15 AM
462ron - by 462ron - 03-06-2023, 09:41 AM
462ron - by 462ron - 01-01-2025, 10:31 AM
462ron - by 462ron - 01-02-2025, 09:10 AM



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