When I purchased my '69 in April 1976, I learned about the prior owner (before the seller), but when contacting that prior owner who had purchased the car (almost new) for his 16 yr old daughter, I found out almost nothing... he either didn't remember, or didn't care about passing anything along... so after 40 yrs, I tried again earlier this year and found out that 'father' had passed, but found a son who had the same name. As it turned out, I'd never been able to locate/talk to the daughter owner, but in talking to the son (also a car nut) he told me many stories about his sister having the car, her having a bf who was a car nut and camaro owner, and himself (a Mustang owner) and all their attempts to set up races between all the cars, until their father put a stop to that!
But he also remembered where the car had been purchased (local Chevy dealer at the time), AND that the original owner was a young policeman! So since then, I've been trying to identify a policeman contact who had been on the force in the 1970 timeframe! Well, this week, I found one, who is also a car nut, and who still consults with the HPD... after talking to him yesterday morning, he spent the day calling a dozen of his old contacts... he told me last night that he WOULD find the original owner for me! (although it's a possibility that the orig owner passed away earlier this year).. I've sent him photos of my car to help 'old memory recollections'..
Besides identifying the original owner (a huge goal of mine for along time), I'm also holding a tiny hope that one of those owners *might* have hung onto the PTP...
So THIS has been a good weekend, that has me smiling today, in spite of my soreness from setting fence posts yesterday!
and Darrell: How was that Texas A&M game yesterday?? Another reason to smile?
