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Location: Oakley, Ill | I'd keep mine for nice days. I got my 56 Imperial with the idea that it would be my primary car when I retire, until I realized that winter weather will play hell with the diecast and lower body. |
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Location: Cushing, Wisconsin | I am obsessed with my cars, can't drive em enough! There probably isn't anything in the world That Makes me as happy as my cars!! |
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Location: Melbourne, Australia | I totally agree with you 57wc, I'm always hanging to cruise in my forward lookers. The weather has to be right. When their not out ,their wrapped up like cocoons even in the garage, just incase they catch a cold......LOL...Is that an obsession?. I guess these type of cars are becoming so hard to come by in this day and age so we have to preserve them but at the same time enjoy them too.......Anth.
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| moparsteve - 2009-08-01 8:59 PM
if i had one nice and presentable running well, i'd drive it every day polish it to death and be buried in it!!!
obsessed..... hmmmmm..... we take her out every Saturday and Sunday to car shows and cruise in's, my wife does not drive my ride, only me. I keep her clean and locked in her garage 24/7  |
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Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | If I ever got one, I'd definitely be obsessed...
But if I had one and someone ever, ever mentioned the word 'Christine' around it, they'd get an highly detailed of explanation of how they'd said the wrong thing! |
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Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Seeing as I don't have one just yet, this thread keeps up & I'll soon become obsessed with WANTING to be obsessed with the '55 DeSoto Fireflite Coronado in John's yard. 
So close, yet so far.....
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Location: Blythewood, SC | I'm obsessed.
I like to build and work on it. So I built it the best I could, now I am driving it until it needs to be restored again. Then I have the joy of building it again.
I'd leave my wife before I sold my 57.
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Location: Parts Unknown | Started looking for a '61 Dodge around 1987 and since then I have been lucky enough to buy 3 (always need more) - I pretty much spend 8 to 10 hrs a day either working on, driving or looking for another . . . I guess that might be considered obsessed . . . |
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Location: Netherlands | I'm not obsessed, I'm not obsessed, I'm not obsessed, I'm not obsessed... 
I've been driving late/mid '60s American cars for over 17 years now. But bought my first fin-car in 2007. Today I'm busy buying fin-car no.4... 
Last saturday night we had a cruise-meeting, one of the largest monthly ones here in the Netherlands.
The weather was perfect, nice and warm, but I didn't take my '65 300 convertible to the meet... no, I took my '60 NewYorker... just because even though it's a 4-dr sedan, the car is way more fun to drive with the torqy 500" motor 
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Location: Parts Unknown | My car interest grew increasingly intense until I had opened up an all-fin wrecking yard and spent all my off hours either hunting more stock or peddling parts, not to mention fussing with my own rigs. I had a great time.
By about 1994, things came unraveled at the other end of life. My wife was a bitch and enough other problems arose that the "acreage" of cars had to be pared down to a manageable number and I needed to get a "real job". 
I ditched da bitch, sold off all the cars except for my absolute favorite, and focused on priorities like moving where it doesn't rain 300 days out of the year !
I never saw myself as being "obsessed", but I'd bet other people looking "in" might have said I was !
I plan to become more "obsessed" with my cars in the future, building a wing-ding shop and really having a nice place to lock myself away during the snowy months to weld and chop and wrench on things so that when summer rolls around I am ready to hit the backroads to nowhere.
My favorite memories of old cars are of the people who had them but really didn't make a big deal of it. The old guy down the street with the 58 Lincoln lurking in the dark recesses of his garage only occasionally venturing out to the street, or the little old lady with the beat up 56 Seville I used to see at the grocery store. That is the kind of car "presence" I shoot for. No car show sunburns, no ribbons, no trophies.... just a quiet, understated presence as that old guy down the street with the garage full of old cars you occasionally see at the grocery store.
But, as for being obsessed .. I have been working almost non-stop for months doing ground work on that new shop. I have sent kids half my age packing ... can't keep up with the old man (obsessed) shoveling and picking rock in the heat !  .... they got blisters ! I could use my hands for Velcro they are so rough. Obsessed ? What is the difference between "obsessed" and "driven" ? |
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Location: Canada | Every Friday I park my Accord, from then until Sunday night it's just the 59.....I should take better care cleaning and polishing it....but I use it lke an everyday car...just came back from the beach.. |
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Location: Canada | crvsir - 2009-08-02 8:42 PM
Every Friday I park my Accord, from then until Sunday night it's just the 59.....I should take better care cleaning and polishing it....but I use it lke an everyday car...just came back from the beach..
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Location: new york | If you think it's obsessive to have owned over 45+ 55-62 Mopar products in the past 25 years and still own 11 of them than you might say i'm obsessed!
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Location: georgia | when i was 16 i started watching chrime story in 1987 just to see the black 57 300 convertible. i started buying books and going to car shows but never saw any fined chryslers.i didnt have money but i wanted a 57 300 convertible,so i worked hard and in 1996 i bought my first car a 59 plymouth that i still have. next was 58 desoto convertible then 58 300 convertible.i now have about 35 mopars most are fin cars. i dont have many people in my area that like fin cars so i was glad to find this website.all my friends kid me that they can always find my car at the car show.one of my friends said that my collection had gone up in value when scrap prices went up.my newest car is a 62 300 and the oldest is a 37 dodge. |
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Location: Big pimpin' | Doctor DeSoto - 2009-08-02 5:47 PM
. Obsessed ? What is the difference between "obsessed" and "driven" ? ;)
"Obsessed" is when you paint a '58 Plymouth red and white........"Driven" is when you did just for spite.... |
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| When the time comes and my '57 Firesweep Shopper is ready to be driven daily will be a happy day for me for sure! I think about every day. How cool it will be, how I want it to ulimately look when it's finished. It runs pretty well, but the brakes need to be replaced completely, I'm likely going to be doing a disc brake conversion for sure. I think of all the different ways to build it, the colors I would like to see it in. I think about, how I foresee using it to pull a vintage travel trailer on road trips, as well as using it to pull the same trailer to art shows I set up at. The attention it would generate would be amazing. I have named the car Virgil. I have even done a few paintings of it too, including one where my wagon is towing a vintage "canned ham" trailer through outer space. I have been thinking of using this painting as my avatar here. I have also begun my first ever still life painting, (one genre of painting that I pretty much can't stand) It shows the front bumper and grille assembly on a worbench, with a toolbox, and hand tools scattered around. It is my habit to create a painting every year and turn it in to a Chistmas Card which I send out. A few years ago I did a painting of a '50 Spartan Royal Mansion ( an example of which I also own) parked out in the desert. The '57 wagon is parked out front, hood up, up on blocks, no wheels, and a green door on what is a blue car. My dogs Waldo and Baby Elmo are looking out the window, waiting for Santa. A toilet in the front w/a Pointsetta planted in it. An outhouse, a cactus, and a UFO flying overhead pretty much rounds out the picture. I did another one of the tail lights of a '59 Dodge. I sketch my car on napkins on my lunch break. I am planning on building a garage this coming spring, so that I can work on the DeSoto in earnest. The tail lights of any FL car pretty much exite me, and the '57 & '58 DeSotos especially get me, um, you know..... I basically live and breathe cars. My artwork focuses on them as its exlclusive subject. And FL cars are the ulimate expression of the great fifties styling that came out of Detroit then. I worked in auto restoration for years, and spent a lot of time on Tri-Five Chevys, and Fifties Fords as well. I barely even see them if there is a FL car around, and to me the '57 Chevys were about the most hideous looking cars. The fords looked pretty good, but a bit conservtive. The FL cars are the best. I want to get a tatoo of the tailend of my wagon on my arm. Seriously. When my classmates in high school were thinking of Camaros and Mustangs, I was dreaming of a Black 300C Convertible, with a red interior and the Hiway Hi-Fi setup. Recently I found what appears to be a '55 or '56 Imperial Limo sitting in a field near my home surrounded by 20-20 Nova and Chevelle carcasses. I can't sleep at night since seeing it, scheming different way to get it.( This involves some subterfuge, as I have been told by my long-suffering partner, "If it has tires or a tail the answer is NO" I have been threatened with dismemberment.). I have thought of stashing it somwhere else, of claiming in starry-eyed innocence "But honey, don't you remember? I brought this for you for your birthday last year! I cannot BELIEVE you don't remember my heart-felt gift" Maybe work up a set of teary eyes upon delivery. Or how 'bout "Oh BTW Julian bought another car, and Bernadette doesn't know about it, and you know how positively crabby she is. I told him we could store it here for awhile until he works up the nerve to tell her" A few months later, Julian calls when he knows I'm not home, and tells my other half "Bernie's never going to go for it. I got it really cheap, so I'm just going to give it to Carl, because I know he'll take good care of it." Who could say no to that? Does this sound feasible? Am I rational when it comes to both FL cars, and cars in general? It seems rational to me, but what the hell do I know from rational???
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Location: bishop, ca | I'm with Ray (way-up above here), but, fortunately, the 'Christine' ethos has worn out, and at worst, someone might
remember a certain movie-theme, from somewhere, long ago, but they will have forgotten the flic's title.
So, they might say something like, "wasn't your car in a movie, or something; TV show, ....a while ago?"
Anyone, nowadays, who knows what the movie's name was, will know what a Plymouth is, and, what it's not.
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Location: bishop, ca | Chad, that "black-with-red interior" Crime Story 300C that you recall merely had had that paint, and that fabric dye, be applied
directly over the OEM white/tan colors.
After the show wrapped, its original owner (Andy Jugle) got the car back from the producers, who had never bothered to
transfer title to their name. Throughout the show's run, Andy was, still, technically/officially the car's owner (unbeknownst to him).
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Location: georgia | neil does andy still have the 300C? |
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Location: Cushing, Wisconsin | I love that show, I still watch it with the fiance. Surprisingly she likes it too !!!
everytime I go to a local car show they say look it's christine! wow christine! when is the last time you seen one of them? I continually have to tell them it's a 57 chrysler not a 58 plymouth. |
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Location: bishop, ca | I haven't seen/spoken with Andy for a while, now; Ian or someone (still-) in the WPC should know the whereabouts of the car.
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | d500neil - 2009-08-03 2:00 PM
Chad, that "black-with-red interior" Crime Story 300C that you recall merely had had that paint, and that fabric dye, be applied
directly over the OEM white/tan colors.
After the show wrapped, its original owner (Andy Jugle) got the car back from the producers, who had never bothered to
transfer title to their name. Throughout the show's run, Andy was, still, technically/officially the car's owner (unbeknownst to him).
When they shot some scenes at my place of employment, I had to guard that car, along with a two or three '59 Fords painted up as Las Vegas cop cars.
The 300's red interior didn't look so nice up close. One of the Ford sedans was worse...............nothing on the driver's side of the front seat back. Just the springs.
The '57's exterior looked like it had a quarter inch thick coating of wax.
A guy living on Desert Inn Road at that time had a large stash of '59 Fords as well as a '60 Ford next to his house. I believe some of them were painted up as cop cars for use in the show.
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who's obsessed with their fwd look mopar? not just "christine"
