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The last auto show of the season where I live is in my hometown. That's convenient!
Some of you longtime visitors to Crossfolf Corner have seen me mention my friend Tim before: he's a (very) wealthy lobster fisher with a passion for collecting, driving and enjoying antique cars and trucks. Yesterday at the show, he told me that he now has 33 of them.
I told him the usual joke about how he can drive a different one every day of the month and still have a few left over ha!
Tim enjoyed the joke; after all, he asked me that tiresome "how many bodies fit in that trunk haw haw" question enough times when I owned the '79 Lincoln Mk V and/or the '81 Cadillac Fleetwood Coupe.
Tim bought this pretty green 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe Coupe back in March. I love the color, and how the red and blue accents compliment the font and the chrome-shiny trim of the top-of-the-line "Special Deluxe" emblem on the sides of this car's engine hood.
A Crossfolf Camera Presentation.
Some of you longtime visitors to Crossfolf Corner have seen me mention my friend Tim before: he's a (very) wealthy lobster fisher with a passion for collecting, driving and enjoying antique cars and trucks. Yesterday at the show, he told me that he now has 33 of them.
I told him the usual joke about how he can drive a different one every day of the month and still have a few left over ha!
Tim enjoyed the joke; after all, he asked me that tiresome "how many bodies fit in that trunk haw haw" question enough times when I owned the '79 Lincoln Mk V and/or the '81 Cadillac Fleetwood Coupe.
Tim bought this pretty green 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe Coupe back in March. I love the color, and how the red and blue accents compliment the font and the chrome-shiny trim of the top-of-the-line "Special Deluxe" emblem on the sides of this car's engine hood.
A Crossfolf Camera Presentation.
Category Photography / All
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File Size 130.5 kB
Back then, the low-priced cars like the Chevrolets, Plymouths and Fords offered a Deluxe version for the driver of modest means who still wanted something nice; the blue collar family man who couldn't quite manage a more middle-class kind of car like an Oldsmobile, a De Soto or a Mercury, but could still be perfectly happy with a nicely trimmed Deluxe model from a low-priced make like this handsome green 1941 Chevrolet.
It's definitely true. When my parents bought their second house (1961), their real estate agent bought a new four-door Chevy sedan every year. I went to high school with his nephew who explained it the same way. "Charlie could afford a new Cadillac or something, but not every year. Pulling up in a new car, well, the clients didn't care what it was. They were impressed and that sold houses."
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