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[barnstuf]

There was an elderly maiden lady with a 1929 Sport Coupe in a town near me. She was given the car new in 1929 when she was 16 years old. It was the only car she ever had in her lifetime. She had a trusted local mechanic do oil changes and minor repairs. She took it to the Ford dealer in a nearby town for any serious mechanical work. Little did she know that both the local mechanic and the Ford dealer would contact me to get the parts they needed. In her 80's she had a fender bender accident at a traffic light and was cited by the police, and by coincidence my wife witnessed the accident. The lady gave up driving and two cousins that I know each thought she would give her car to them. No way! She gave the car to her local mechanic friend and was able to get her reserved low number license plate transferred to him also. It has been over 20 years since that happened and the car is still in his hands, no club membership, never taken to shows, just a pleasure ride now and then.

[Fordors]

Originally Posted by barnstuf

There was an elderly maiden lady with a 1929 Sport Coupe in a town near me. She was given the car new in 1929 when she was 16 years old. It was the only car she ever had in her lifetime. She had a trusted local mechanic do oil changes and minor repairs. She took it to the Ford dealer in a nearby town for any serious mechanical work. Little did she know that both the local mechanic and the Ford dealer would contact me to get the parts they needed. In her 80's she had a fender bender accident at a traffic light and was cited by the police, and by coincidence my wife witnessed the accident. The lady gave up driving and two cousins that I know each thought she would give her car to them. No way! She gave the car to her local mechanic friend and was able to get her reserved low number license plate transferred to him also. It has been over 20 years since that happened and the car is still in his hands, no club membership, never taken to shows, just a pleasure ride now and then.

That elderly maiden lady knew how the game is played and she played it well by recognizing the trusted mechanic for his many years of service on her car. The cousins may only have seen $$$ signs, but dear old Auntie fooled them!