Afterthought: I just found a website telling a lot more about Dean Weller, the man doing all this, and providing far better photos:
http://www.kansastravel.org/grandpasoldfordgarage.htm
Jeanne’s son, Michael and I stopped here for a closer look at the car in the window.
A gas pedal, stick for directional control, another for braking, another for gearshift. Slow and less slow.
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I had no idea what was in there when I suggested Michael pull over for a look at that car. But as we got out and peered through shadowing hands to overcome the reflections an old guy sitting in a truck out front spoke to us:
“You can come in for a closer look if you want to.” He got out and unlocked the door to the building. The place is jam-packed with cars he’s build or restored. He’s 88 years old been doing this since he retired in the late 1960s.
Built of iron bar shaped to resemble a Model A body, runs good though breezy.
They don’t make them like this anymore. Never did, in fact.
Two stories packed with old cars and trucks. Woodies, racecars, whatever.
Impossible to examine any one car because they’re squeezed in tight to make more room.
No fewer than a couple of dozen. More than enough to serve an 88 year old man for basic transportation.
He says he’s run out of room on both floors so he won’t be starting any new projects.
Sometimes if you bet a few minutes of life and say some magic words the Universe will cooperate and shoot a surprise out of nowhere.
Old Jules
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