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'59 Coronet - was my first car
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71charger_fan
Posted 2016-11-17 8:51 AM (#526471)
Subject: '59 Coronet - was my first car


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Location: Frederick, MD		Back in '77 I had a great aunt who could no longer drive and she had a '59 Coronet. I was not quite 19, could drive, but had no car. For $325 the car became mine, including rusted floors and rusted headlight eyebrows. It was a 326-2V, with automatic. It needed a little brake work, but ran great. I was going to school and Maine and driving back and forth to NJ. After about a year, my dad decided he didn't want to trust such an old car and found me a '74 Satellite Sebring. We sold the '59 for $600 to a school friend from MD who then drove it between MD and ME for the next almost 3 years. He eventually sold it for $1200 then bought it back for $600, so, over the long run, he got the car free. He sold it again a couple years later for (I think) another $1200. Last I saw it, it was sitting in a gas station on West St in Annapolis in '82 or '83.



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58coronet
Posted 2016-11-17 9:02 AM (#526472 - in reply to #526471)
Subject: Re: '59 Coronet - was my first car


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Good story to hear and im sure great memories! My story is very similar, 58 Coronet that was my grandparents car, at age 17 in 1977 it became mine. I still own it! Drove it daily for a few years and have kept it for a hobby car ever since.
Would be good to hear you're getting back to the Forward Look!
Welcome!
Mark
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71charger_fan
Posted 2016-11-17 10:55 AM (#526477 - in reply to #526471)
Subject: Re: '59 Coronet - was my first car


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Location: Frederick, MD		Unfortunately, the photo I had was taken on that crappy Kodak instant film. The photos were okay when new, but deteriorated horribly over time. The computer software was able to mostly reconstruct it.
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matte
Posted 2016-11-17 3:44 PM (#526506 - in reply to #526477)
Subject: Re: '59 Coronet - was my first car



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Location: Sydney, Australia		My favourite FL car and this one looks great and a little sinister... The car now has probably had a full resto...

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