The light green ’55 Pontiac el-cheapo 2-door with straight shift and ended up with a modified engine (everything I owned was or is modified, I think!) First Honeymoon in this car, drove it 3500 miles with a bad cam, a broken piston, slipping clutch and leaking head gasket. Fixed it after the Honeymoon.

The Dark Metallic Green ’40 ford sedan with the ’52 Merc flathead.

The Red ’63 ½ Comet coupe’ with a 260 V-8 4bbl.The two-tone Brown ’58 Dodge hardtop that tried to kill me on several occasions.

The plain white’65 Ford Custom 300 that would out-run 396 Chevelles.

The Black‘65 Ford "woodie" wagon that was not running when given to me. This one lost it’s hood at 75MPH on a bridge one day...WHEW!

The Solid black ’56 Ford 2-dr with the ’58 Merc Turnpike cruiser engine (312 cu. in.). This one almost got my sister killed when I loaned it to her and she got t-boned by a new ’71 Challenger. Nice car, sorry to lose it; glad to still have my sister. I had just installed seat belts in it, and they were in use.

The solid red ’68 Ford big wagon with a 302, never could keep it cool. My first "new" car, a Gold ’70 Cougar with Hounds tooth Vinyl top and A/C and 351 Cleveland motor. I added 4-bbl and duals and Fairlane GT wheels and big fat Radial tires. This was a big deal in 1970 to put radials on an American car. Mercury tried to side-step the warranty because of it. I literally wore this car out in 120,000 miles, then cancer took it.

The dark blue ’37 Ford business coupe I hauled home and put a V8-60 back in it. It would start on those –20’F Indiana winter mornings when nothing else would. Never finished this car, had to sell it as-was. Wonder where it is now?

My first BMW, a beat up Beige 1600 with a 2 liter motor and tricked out suspension. This thing was unbelievable with a dual 2-bbl side-draft carb arrangement on it, it would pull the front wheels off the ground in first and second gears and take any corner you asked. It saved my miserable butt many times and limped home after saving my wife and daughter from likely death after being hit in the side by a drunk in a ’72 Dodge full-size wagon, fully loaded. I pushed it out with jacks and hammers and drove it another year. It made a BMW believer out of me, but needed constant wrenching.

The ’63 ½ Ford Falcon Sprint convertible. Also with a 302. I traded a rusty hulk of a ’53 Merc parts car for it (and kept the new engine, to boot) it from a guy who drove a wrecker for a living and owned 13 T-Birds and over 300 Falcons/Comets/glass-top Ford-Merc hardtops: amazing. It got wiped out sitting in front of the house, and I sold it back to him for what I had in it.

The Dark Metallic Green’51 Ford Custom line 2-dr, cosmetically restored by a High School as a shop project (1978). I put the engine from the ’53 merc in it and drove it everywhere for three years with NO problems. It had a working overdrive and even the clock worked. DIVORCE FORCES SALE!

The unremarkable ’72 F-100 pick-up that carried me and all my stuff to Texas. It did have a killer shimmy at 60-65 MPH that would pull the wheel out of your hands. Scared the DAYLIGHTS out of me the first time. This was real fun going to Texas from Indiana. Never could fix that completely.

In Texas, bought a nice Bronze ’71 Chevy Monte Carlo from some gal I knew, and parked the pickup. Did brakes and shocks and tires and dual exhaust and it turned out to be very fun car. My estranged first wife took a liking to the car and traded me a ’65 Ford Fairlane for it. She drove it to 200,000 miles and it quickly fell apart.

The White ’65 Ford Fairlane was one of Ford’s ugliest cars ever. This one was primo with only 65,000 on the clock. I fixed it up from sitting and being run-down, then bought and sold it four separate times. It was a great car that kept coming home and it would FLY! The last time it was offered back to me I declined …it was really terminal. Kind-of sad to see an old companion go that way.

Currently: No other cars have been as interesting as the current batch: All BMW’s except the BIG BAD BLUE DODGE B-350 van (a refugee from the City of Garland, Texas Motor pool). Our tow vehicle for the 24’ travel trailer that just sits.