Every car guy/ gal has that one. Their Unicorn, the one that made them fall in love with cars in the first place. Anybody that knows me knows what mine is. I have always had a thing for Chrysler cars from the mid-late 50s. They are, in my opinon, some of the most beautiful designs, and in some cases, most ridiculous one to have come out of Detroit. I fell in love with the 1957-58 Plymouths first, others have followed in the "interesting" category, but none have ever held the same place in my heart. When I was a kid, my dad and I used to see one (a '57 Fury) parked downtown. The fins were as tall as me. I remember him pointing through the window, explaining how the push-button drive worked. My grandfather had a '57 Belvedere 4dr Sport Sedan. To this day, the man still talks about the car, calling it "the favorite" of all that he has owned. So, I made up my mind to not back down, to sell the beetle, put it on the classifieds, sold it the same day, and the very same day (after a year of searching, keep in mind) was trolling through some google images, came across a pic of a grey and white Savoy that, when i opened it, was an old classified ad attached to an expired ebay listing. I called the guy's phone number, he said that he still had the car, and a deal was made. He bought the car from the estate of a woman who had passed away. It had been stored in a detatched one-car garage out behind her 3- story Victorian home for years. After he bought it, he got it running, and a friend helped him do a buch of ding-filling work (the car looks different now, it has 12 shades of primer spray all over it) I bought the car with it's 88k og miles and it left Rio Grande, NJ today at lunchtime and will be here sometime tomorrow.
For 25 years I have waited, but now it's time to shut up and just show the pics from the day of discovery....
