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Finding His Old Ride After 37 Years
Posted April 30 2008 06:14 PM by RCTimB 
Filed under: Rod & Custom Magazine

If there's anything better than building and driving a hot rod or custom car, it's being reunited with a long-lost favorite. In the "Yesterday's Young Guns" department in the  November 2007 issue of R&C, we told you the story of Chuck Call and his ’51 Vicky. Chuck had owned the car since the late '50s when he sold it in 1970, and hadn't seen it since. He asked us to ask our readers to be on the lookout for the old custom shoebox. Shortly after that issue came out, we got a letter from a reader in Nevada, claiming that he’d bought that car only a few years ago and was trying to find some history on it to restore it to its original custom condition. We put the new owner in touch with the old owner. Not long after that, we got a message from Chuck. It really was his old Vicky. The new owner really didn’t want to sell it, but was willing to make an exception, just to return the custom to its original owner. Chuck’s son has been saving his money with the intention of buying the ’51 and restoring it for his own son. The wheel’s keep turning.


   

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