"Unsafe at any speed"......

by Byron, Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 17:55 (3697 days ago)

A patient who is a retired Col. is a serious car collector who has 20 cars at this time ranging from a 930 Turbo slant nose Porsche to a GT350H Mustang to a Caddy Eldorado convertible that is about 30' long and has wings like a B52 (white with red interior of course) to a "perfect" '34 Ford Coupe body on a hot rod Mustang lower (full leather, air conditioning, electric window, 302 Boss engine....etc) and many others of all kinds...this does not count the motorcycles.... He has a garage that is three wide and 3 cars deep with lifts so that he can stack cars three high. Like I said, "serious".

He has a retired full Col. pension, a retired high level civil service pension, Social Security and his wife has a civil service pension and Social Security. This amounts to a lot of mail box money in addition to 50 years of wise and effective saving and investing on his own. He's rich.

He has been telling me for awhile that the new hotness in the "hot rod" crowd is the "rat rod" concept car and that he had his eyes on a good one.

He recently completed the purchase and has been the star of the small town cars shows this summer in his new "rat rod".

He proudly bought it by the office today to show me and take me for a ride.

No bueno for Byron! It has a 375 horse small block, dubious brakes and "vague" steering and drag slicks in the rear. The grill is off an old Oliver tractor. He indicates that at wide open throttle the front end will come a "little bit" off the ground. WOW!


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