This is amazing. Clarence Cleveland Curtiss bought his first car, a 1929 Ford Model A in 1938 for $10. It now has 200,000 miles on it, it’s unrestored and it still runs.
It has an amazing history. He bought it from a guy during the depression who was out of work and hungry. This was when he was 15. He drove it for a year without a licence.
When he was 17 he met his wife, Dorothy in the car. “She was the first and only girl I ever kissed in the car,”he said. “It’s priceless because of that as far as I’m concerned”
In 1940 he replaced the engine with a Hudson Terraplane lump which allowed him to go 80mph+ instead of the usual 55. They drove the the New York Worlds Fair in 1940, and to six army camps from Massachusetts to Georgia when he served during World War II.
He plans on passing the car to his family when he passes away.
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