XPost: alt.home.repair
From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In rec.autos.tech, on Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:02:27 -0500, Michael Trew
wrote:
>On 3/6/2022 15:50, micky wrote:
>> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 5 Mar 2022 21:51:10 -0800, The Real Bev
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The car ultimately developed a lot of
>>> problems which I had workarounds for, but I ultimately sold it to a
>>> "fine Cherman VW mechanic" who was sure he could fix it. A friend saw
>>> it at the local wrecking yard a few weeks later.
>>
>> Mine still worked fine, but my brother had gone to Viet Nam and lent,
>> then gave me his '65 Catalina convertiable. And as much as I like the
>> Olds, I like the Pontiac better. So I gave or sold it for $50 to a guy
>> I'd met because he had a car like mine. He had two, and after he had
>> mine, he had 3. I hated to promote his nerdish hobby (details on
>> request), but it needed a home.
>
>OK, I'm curious about the "nerdish hobby" now.
Sorry t his took so long, expecially since I offered detail. P&M
It was just having a two '50 Olds. He was 35 or almost 40 iirc and he
said he would drive around the U. of Chicago campus and impress the
girls, or he hoped he did. Sure, some were interested in an old car but
I don't think they were attracted to him because of his car.
I don't know where he actually lived but he owned a townhouse on the
west side of Chicago which I visited once. The first floor had a big
room, maybe living and dinning rooms with the wall removed, and it was
full of boxes of electronics parts and probably other stuff that he
bought at auctions, I think, There was little furniture, only these
boxes of stuff and he was so happy to give me some of it, anything I
could remotely use. He might have lived upstairs come to think of it
but he implied he didnt'.
He kept his extra car there, in the back, and now he had 3 '50 or '51
Olds, one of them a fastback.
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