Happy Birthday to Me!

    Happy Birth­day to me, Happy Birth­day to me, OK it’s really not until June 1st but my lovely wife, Mary Lee had my gift deliv­ered early today. She could not find a bow big enough but that’s OK with me I’ll take it any­way.  Admit­tedly this whole thing has been in the works for many many weeks and we appre­ci­ate the patience of the sell­ers Fran & Ann who bent over back­wards to accom­mo­date us in every pos­si­ble way.  They have been clients of my busi­ness for more than 15 years at www.aldenvillerugcleaning.com and on every visit to their home I would see the Caddy in the garage, notice that it never moved and sure took up a whole lot of space. I often won­dered about buy­ing it for a restora­tion project.  This has been a life chang­ing year for us, we have had to deal with a very seri­ous health issue with my Mom and at the same time decided to sell our beach house out on Cape Cod.  Mom passed away on the 5th of May and we closed the sale on the house on May 21st..  I knew or felt that when all was said and done we were going to have a whole lot of free time on our hands and not being a couch potato I was going to need to do some­thing to occupy my time.  Well I could take up golf again after a 10 year hia­tus or find a clas­sic car to rebuild, hmmmm.… Finally, on my trip out to Fran & Ann’s home in April this year I asked them if they were inter­ested in sell­ing the car and they agreed to sell it to me. Not only did Mary Lee and I pur­chase a “Clas­sic” we bought a piece of his­tory that actu­ally has a his­tory of its own.

   The day began early when I arrived at the Har­ris home to pay them and com­plete the paper­work, about 15 min­utes later the flatbed from Inter­state Tow­ing Inc. arrived to begin the process of pulling it out of the garage and load­ing it. The car had not been started for 22 years, we were not sure if the brakes would be locked or if there would be any other issues to deal with.  All went rel­a­tively smoothly and Tony (dri­ver #110) treated the car as if it were his very own. 

   Once out of the garage and on the flatbed, Tony decided he really was not com­fort­able tak­ing it that way, took it out to the street, off loaded it and reloaded on the truck again before he was sat­is­fied. That part now done, off we went to the cars new home, a stor­age bay at my business.

   On arrival we were think­ing we would have to drop the car and then reload it in order to roll it off into the bay. Tony decided he could drive the wrecker right in and off load the car directly into the garage, sav­ing a step. What a tight fit that was!!!

   At this point I really need to thank Inter­state Tow­ing,  www.interstatetowing.com  based in Chicopee, MA., they were super pro­fes­sional in every way and took great pains to insure a safe trip. Their atten­tion to detail is like noth­ing I have ever seen.  In today’s world we are all accus­tomed to deal­ing with phone sys­tems and not real peo­ple, cus­tomer ser­vice has suf­fered across the board, not here though, if you need a tow, call these guys, you will not be dis­ap­pointed.… We spent about an hour going over the car and just tak­ing it all in.  What an amaz­ing piece of his­tory, Detroit iron at its finest. Every time I look at it I find new lit­tle details that I missed the time before.

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