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Originally Posted by Kube
If they could only talk, huh?
The tires... when I'd found my '34 coupe, I knew the car had been parked in '49. It appeared to have been well used during the war years. The tries were just like the ones you had on your '32. They were mostly bald and so hard with age, they literally crumbled when I removed them from the rims.
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Sounds like my situation. Rubber and tires were in extremely short supply during the war, so in my book if the tires were worn down during the war and really old, neither of our cars could have been driven much at all after the war.
I met the grandson of the owner of my 32 cabriolet . . . he said it had been up on blocks his whole life and neither he nor his Dad had ever seen it move. Was cool to meet him - he gave me the only pictures he had of his Grandpa and Grandma next to the 32. Way cool of him. The other cool thing was the house /garage it was sitting in . . . was built in 32.
Here are some pics from when it was found . . . the scene was like a museum from the 40's. All the old tools still in place, even had the 'girlie' pictures up on the wall. I sort of wish the whole corner of the garage could have been removed and setup some place - felt like I was walking back in time.
PS: The last picture is how the car looks now . . .
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