Holzman's Treasures: The Barn Find
This “barn find” was found at Johnnie’s Sales and Service just the other week, down on Warwick Rd., somewhere in the middle of Massachusetts, where the car has sat for… seems no-one hereabouts can quite remember.
It’s expected to fetch about fifty bucks at the Concours, assuming they can actually load it onto the truck to haul it there, and that no-one bars the door when they arrive. Treasures found under the seats include a Nixon-Lodge button, a pack of stale L&Ms, a pez machine, and some Trojans.
At David Holzman’s classic car celebrating website, motorlegends.com, you can learn about Richard Nixon’s biggest mistake (having to do with Hannibal, a ’53 Buick), and buy classic car T-shirts. You can also see the world’s only menorah made out of Porsche valves, and see photos of the Yugo Next exhibit, which was 40 reinCARnations of Yugos by the students of a New York City art teacher.
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Met an older guy in Shamrock Texas who had owned an Edsel dealership a few years back . He still had the remains of it , including a 1958 Edsel Corsair convertible , several 1959 stationwagons , and the rarest , a 1960 Edsel convertible in a peculiar rose metallic color , a factory paint job he said , one of only 76 1960 Edsel convertibles built . Shamrock is one of those towns on old Route 66 , long ago bypassed by the interstate , but quite the big deal back in the day .
Wow, how come the headlights is in such good shape? Usually they'd be yellowed or blackened before the car's reached this shape. Who would replace headlights on a car that seem to have been derelict decades ago?