Stories

One of the reasons we have old cars

This story is about a preacher's car that got my wife's attention

1960 MGA 1600

Our Story

My wife had a job that required her to travel to neighboring states on a daily basis.

One day she came home all excited about seeing this little car setting on the front

lawn of a house in a small town located in southern Illinois and wanted me to go back with her to take a look at it.

We Bought it!

The Preacher

The car had an interesting backstory. It was previously owned by a preacher who used it to visit church members that were being cared for in local hospitals. Knowing that the car was used for such a noble cause we just had to purchase it!

Happy Couple

We were "the happy couple" We drove it everywhere We had lots of neat hair

happy airline pilot flying commercial plane.jpg

German Sports Car

Commercial Airline pilot owned a porsche Only drove it to Florida once a year on vacations

1981 Porsche 911SC

We bought it and we drove it everywhere but Florida

Abandoned

The MGA 1600 set outside neglected for many years

Called Michael

Decided to fix up the little British car

(more about this picture later)

He new what to do

Michael started working on the car from the ground up

Take Your Time!

I've got no place to put it!

We developed a routine

He sends me pictures, I send him money

I'm running out of time - Still no place to put it

Call from Michael - "you're the only customer I've ever had that sends me money & has never seen the car"

THEN IT HAPPENED!

MGA

My wife say's "when you ever going to finish fixing up the MGA"

next day Michael calls

"when you coming over see the car?"

I said "lets pretend that we need to decide what color we want and look at a few samples of material for the top & interior so you can start putting the car back together"