patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
...owned big luxury cars from all of the Big Three? All at the same time? In the late '90s, I had just finished a beautiful resto on a straight '67 GMC Suburban and enjoyed the finished product for about a year. At the same time, I had a '73 Imperial I had bought at the Kruse auction in 1997 for the princely sum of $450.00. I was bored with the 'Burb, and was looking for a replacement. I took the '67 to the next Kruse auction, where it bid at the then-high price of $10K, but still did not meet my reserve. A seller with a '62 Lincoln Continental ragtop offered to trade me straight-up! And so, I did. Now, my garage had a very nice B5 Imperial four-door and a goldish-green Lincoln droptop!
A couple of weeks later, a friend called with a '66 Coupe deVille he was selling, looking for leads. I knew the car, and really liked it. I bought that for a very reasonable price, and drove the white beauty home. Now, I had the Imp, the Lincoln, and a Caddy! Over 1,295 cubic inches of smooth power, fifty-eight feet of sheer luxury, and fifteen-thousand pounds of turnpike cruisability! And who knows how many cows gave up their hides for these three!
By the middle of 2000, I had sold all three cars. The Imperial went to a gentleman in Kansas, where he repainted the car in the original blue and got the Auto-Temp II working like a charm. The Lincoln went to a collector in San Jose, California, who flew out to look at it, paid me, and had a hauler there a week later to get the ragtop. The Cadillac went to a twenty-something in Austin, Texas, so no telling what happened to that car!
A couple of weeks later, a friend called with a '66 Coupe deVille he was selling, looking for leads. I knew the car, and really liked it. I bought that for a very reasonable price, and drove the white beauty home. Now, I had the Imp, the Lincoln, and a Caddy! Over 1,295 cubic inches of smooth power, fifty-eight feet of sheer luxury, and fifteen-thousand pounds of turnpike cruisability! And who knows how many cows gave up their hides for these three!
By the middle of 2000, I had sold all three cars. The Imperial went to a gentleman in Kansas, where he repainted the car in the original blue and got the Auto-Temp II working like a charm. The Lincoln went to a collector in San Jose, California, who flew out to look at it, paid me, and had a hauler there a week later to get the ragtop. The Cadillac went to a twenty-something in Austin, Texas, so no telling what happened to that car!
