Car # 23
1973 Subaru GL Fastback
(sorry no photo of mine could be found of this one, so I stole one
off the Internet to at least show you what it looked like)
It was a great little car and I truly enjoyed it. Great on ICE and SNOW
being a front-wheel drive.
Car # 24
was the beginning of my Classic and Antique car days.
This 1932 Buick 96S Country Club Coupe has quite a story to it.
This is what it looked like when I first saw it.
(click on photo to enlarge)
This 1932 Buick was a One-of-a-kind special built car that was
actually the Show Car used in the 1932 Detroit New Car Show.
It had one of the First metallic paint jobs ever put on a car (at that time).
The fenders were actually painted with powdered SILVER in clear
lacquer and the main body was a Maroon with real Silver sprayed
over the top of the main color and then more clear lacquer.
The car was purchased at the Detroit Car Show by a gangster
from Los Angeles, while visiting Detroit and his fellow Detroit gangsters.
He had the car shipped by train to Los Angeles, where he drove it for
awhile with the beautiful and most unusual paint job. Soon he was too
easily recognized and had the car painted black like all the other cars of that era.
While on a trip, going through the Mojave Desert in Southern California, the water
pump went out on the car and he parked it at a motel near Furnace Creek Inn,
in the Mojave Desert. Telling the motel owner he would return for the car. He
never came back for it. 40+ years later I found it and bought it.
As you can see it needed "just a little" restoring!
BEFORE & AFTER
(click on photos to enlarge them)
Yes, it took years! And I did it ALL myself! Including the upholstery and the engine
rebuild. If you want more details we'll have to do that over some "toddies" some day.
The stories are WAY too long for here!
(Click on photos for enlargements)
NOTE: notice the Golf Club door on the side and the thermostatically operated radiator fins on the grill.
All the interior wood trim I refinished like a gun stock and it took hundreds of hours of sanding
and re-sanding. Some small pieces, such as the radiator emblem, the "Flying Lady"
had to be rebuild and recast by hand by a dental technician. And then re-chromed of course.
Finally after years of restoration work it was finished. It was an amazing car to drive and lots of fun
to show. The BIG straight eight engine ran smooth as a Swiss watch but stopping this 3 Ton mass was a real
challenge for the mechanical brakes of that era.
I ended up selling this beauty to a collector and the last I heard it was on display in a Classic Car
Museum in Oklahoma city. I have since lost track of it.
This was the most extensive restoration I ever did, without exception.
Yes, it was repainted just like the original car using "real Silver"!
And, Yes, it sold for a "tidy sum"!
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