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Beautiful old survivor. And excellent detective work to discover its history.

I wonder if those "pins" you were holding are actually what women used to hold up their stockings. They sure resemble them. They'd pin their stockings, on to a garter belt. They were popular in the 30s, & 40s, & 50s.

Would be interesting to see the selling price when it changed hands in the past .

Siempre me gusto el Plymouth 37 coupe ,como la usada en el 🎥 alta sierra con el gran. Bogart.👍

Fantastic tracking job Terry! I did the same about my 51 Ford coupe and found 1st, 2nd and 3rd owners, now I’m the 4th!

wow un believably compelling!

love this kind of thing that car has more value with the history.

get tires from Coker tire company just like original.

those lights look like they go where the spare tire is the 2 metal pieces look like the same size. business coupe might need lighting in the back storage area.

That's amazing you were able to research it back that. I'm wondering if the family of the dealership, where the car was originally sold would have any old records of who originally bought the car. I'm sure you probably already thought of that.

Excellent excellent work

Great story this was.

Great tale, Flathead Terry. My first car in '69 was a '37 Plymouth four-door, a deep dark blue. I didn't know much about those cars at the time; I paid $400 for it. I later owned a couple of '46 P15 biz coupes and a '50 Plymouth four-door. I like this story very much...good detective work.

Good story. Thanks.

Great story and excellent detective work!! I wish I could find out some info on my 51 Studebaker, but I'm afraid that would be next to impossible. I live in Alabama and bought the car from an elderly man in Tomahawk, Wisconsin 12 years ago.

5:10 excellent video. Note, door jamb is spelled JAMB. Otherwise, I loved the video and the historical accuracy of the old maps and other documents.

I had a Dodge brothers coupe in ‘67’ , totally original. Paid $300. My dad sold it when I got drafted.😢

Great video! The only time I had anything to do with a truely antique car like that, was a room mate I had for a short time had a 1940 Olds. I did get a chance to drive it, flathead six, three on the tree. Unique experience.

Nice parade route on your 42 Harley, such a beautiful bike, my Son lives in Milwaukee so I recognized some of the route from visiting there, especially the waterfront. One thing about Milwaukee is the roads are terrible.

an 88.

Nicely done, remember to do a nut & bolt check after 50 to 100 miles. 👍

Your video came up in my feed and I'm so happy it did. Really enjoyed the process. Very unique and enjoyable. Thanks!

That's a great story, nice to find that much history. I have a 57 Chevy that has a pretty neat history too. 👍

All happy back then, all my friends and relatives were alive...but some people were talking about Viet Nam ???

I bought an original owner '65 Mustang recently and the old guy said he had reams of paper and file folders with the history and would get it to me once his son could help him get it out of the storage room, he said it was buried in there somewhere. The man ended up passing on and the son is not helpful at all... 60 years worth of the car's history will be gone down the drain, as I know they will just throw it all out as junk when they clean the old guy's house. If they weren't 600 miles away I would probably have better luck, but out of sight out of mind to them. Think there is also something that I unwittingly ended up getting caught in, that maybe they are a bit sad or angry that Dad sold that car.

Great story. Thanks. That was fun. I owned a 48 Chevy, a 40 Buick, and a 31 model A and often wondered about their history.

Don't about Illinois, but out here in California, a car owner can contact the DMV and ask for a printout of a cars previous owners. -mikenotpaula.

Wonderful story and well told! I would love to see a detailed report on condition of car.

Here's a little pro tip, if you're looking for old photos of businesses or gas stations around small little towns like that And you can't find anything, go to the local school and ask for old high school annuals. Those old gas stations really promoted schools and it was free advertising back in those days and they generally have a photo of the old station saying best wishes seniors 1950 or whatever In my little town of 600 people really the only photos around the back of those days were in the old school annuals

Amazing

Have you checked with the Motor vehicle bueuro

Love that car. Would love to have one.

This was so cool to watch. Great detective work. Im lucky that i dont have to research the previous owners of my 78 Cadillac Coupe because prior to me, it's been a 1 owner car since new up until 2022 when i purchsed it from the owners daughter.

The other number is sidewall heigth . 5.75 is five and 3/4 inches . Thats the old tire size system .

This is just the kind of car I imagine Philip Marlowe driving (though on the rare occasion he does go into any detail about his car, he says it's a Marmon)

OK, brace yourself for this one..... I lived in Compton just east of Amboy in the early 1950s(I'm 76 yrs old now). My dad was a mechanic for the Case tractor dealer and also work at a gas station north of town at what was called Four Corners (Hwy 51 & 30) .He would bring me along about the time I turned 6 yrs old in 1955, don't remember specific time or date. but some old guy used to bring his 37 Plymouth in for gas and my dad would comment on his "old" car still running and kind of laugh about it.

Terry that was really fascinating. I'm in our local historical clubs, and have always had a luv of cars. Hence much enjoyment of your video. Thank you for sharing.

I lived in Rochelle Ill. in 1982.

well that was fun!

See my comment on your 1968 Camaro video (“Mr. Wobbles“) re: THE VERY FIRST 1968 CAMARO.

I can’t say whether or not I have seen a shifter like that before. But I have seen THE VERY FIRST 1968 Camaro! I looked at the VIN on the dash on it. It indeed had a bunch of 0s followed by a 1 at the end. It was a red convertible with a white top and a 396 motor. It was at a body shop sometime during the 1980s next to the Bellevue Washington Volkswagen dealer (Moore Motors Volkswagen). No it was not in a wreck. The body man that I spoke to said that the reason it was being worked on at the body shop was because it needed all the body kinks taken out of it that he said is typical with the very first car produced on the line. The car was otherwise in what appeared to be very good condition at the time (no damage and no rust). From time to time I have wondered whatever became of that car. One has to find out about what 1968 Camaro VINs were like and what (URL or physical) address one would write to to get it history.

Hi Terry , i sm the third owner of a 1955 Packard 400 2 Door Coupe painted Rose Quartz and White . I purchased it from the second owner who never registered it . I bought it in January of 1984 , six months before I graduated high school for 1000.00 dollars with a small loan from Househol Fonance Corp . ( HFC ) . I got it running , and occasionally drove it for the first couple of years or so . Then , being 18 years old , I had the bright idea to rebuild thf engine . My susters girlfriend's husband was a mechanic , and his buddy , pulled out the motor . The car sat from 1986 to 2013 when my Father passed . In 2014 , I finally had the car taken to a shop to get things going again . I had the car re wired completely , ftont end rebuilt , front disc brake conversion , engine rebuilt , ( 8400.00 ) dollars later, all kinds of light lenses replaced , engine components rebuilt etc.. now after all these years , all I have to finish is the cosmetic work . I am 58 now . And , i have waited 40 years for this . The man I bought the car from was Mr. Norm Sthiles of Arleta CA . He purchased the car from the original owner in the late 70's or early 80's . Her name was Delores Heinzelman of Ojai CA . She purchased it new in 1955 from Earle C. Anthony Packard in Los Angeles . Hows tha for a story !? 🙂❤️

I always thought people should keep a service history book and list of owners in every cars glove box. The book would be just as or more fascinating than the car... Put it in a ziplock bag so it's water proof to survive in a junk yard abandoned for decades.

Very fun nostalgia. Amazing you were able to trace it back as far as you did. Sort of a family history.

What a great piece of detective work, well done and on a fine looking car. Whilst it doesn't compare to your cars age and history, last year I bought a 1967 MG I had owned in the 1980s. I found it purely by chance 4 sale on an online classic car site. It was on the other side of the country and had had four owners since I sold it in 1988. Aside from the seller, I've been able to speak to two of the previous owners and learn much of the cars time in their ownership. It has come full circle after 36 years.

Amazing. Thank you.

Looks just like my '37 Desoto from high school in 1966. Amazing story, thanks! Mine was green and was so much fun to drive. It had overdrive and seemed pretty fast to me. I shared the car with my younger brother which didn't work out, so Dad sold it off. We both ended up buying our own VW buses, and that's another story.

Say thank you to Mike D. for keeping the car for so long in storage.

Must admit its cool to be able to trace that car line owner ship that far back and 62000 original miles thats impressive ive not seen another with under a hundred thousand miles still running and in as good of condition as that one is dmv could probably help you further trace the car back to its original owner

Awesome story. ❤❤❤p