Monday, March 28, 2011
’30 Rolls Royce
’13 Model T Ford
These are my two favorite cars ; I hope this is okay as it is too hard to choose just one. I served in the Korean War — Strategic Air Command (SAC) — in the 1950s, on call 24 hours a day. I earned my WINGS as a Tail Gunner on a B-29 Bomber. I also bought old cars from men who were shipping overseas, and then resold them to supplement my $85 monthly flight pay. I decided to do this in civilian life when I got discharged in 1952. But having a wife and children in the ’50s and ’60s slowed my progress. Then in the early 1970s I began in earnest. I was browsing in an antiques shop when I overheard two people talking about an old car for sale on a lawn nearby. I quickly went to check this …
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March 28th, 2011 
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