QUOTE(gereed75 @ Mar 29 2017, 12:20 PM)
Posts 241 and 242 represent the first teener I've owned (a marathon 4) and the last two (both light ivory sixes)
I am thinking that the one pictured #1088 may be the car I sold back in 83. Never kept the vin but 1088 rings a bell. Jack, did that car come from Texas??
No, I bought this one new in 1970. Ordered through a travel agency for Euro delivery so I could drive it while stationed in Germany. Picked it up in Brussels, then drove 18 mos, then shipped home. Developed rust in the floorboards which wasn't noticed until I took the seats out for reupholstery. Got a sub par patch job, and couldn't bring myself to put it back together in that shape, so it languished in various garages (and shops when I had money) from 1983 until just recently. I had to raise a son to be an automotive restoration painter, and he redid the body over the last 3 or 4 years, painting it a couple of times until he felt it was presentable.
needless to say, it will remain in the family for the foreseeable future.