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Within the fall of 1966 I used to be allowed to purchase (with funds generated from mowing lawns, a newspaper route, farm fieldwork and different miscellaneous actions) my first automobile. For $175, I used to be now a cell teenager. Over the subsequent a number of years, the ’55 Chevy (no cute nickname ever caught) served me by way of highschool, the primary couple of years of marriage, after which handed on to my two sisters, who drove it till it died.

My father, who then had a trucking enterprise, put it right into a warehouse the place it sat for the subsequent 35 years, quietly gathering mud.

After which, one high quality day…I made a decision to carry it again to life. Our journey is in photographs beneath!

Nineteen months later- she was house once more! Restored, however not fully.

A alternative rear window wouldn’t have added a lot to the general undertaking price, nevertheless maintaining it unique makes it priceless!

Have a look at the decrease bead on the trim panel, simply to the left of the clock. That dent was put there on a Friday evening of my highschool senior yr by a girlfriend. Once more, the trim might have been simply, and inexpensively, changed, nevertheless to me these reminiscences are priceless.

–Matt M., Washington