In 1960, when I was 10 years old, my father took me with him to look at an antique car in Mt. Tabor, NJ. It belonged to a 94 year old lady that he knew. She just had a new clutch put in, but she was getting frail and couldn’t depress the clutch anymore, so she decided to sell it to my father for $50.

We took it home and registered it, and used it as a second car for about 2 years. It developed an overheating problem and we removed the heads to find a cracked cylinder wall. We removed the engine and took it to American Auto Parts in Morristown. They sleeved the one cylinder and rebuilt the rest of the engine. We reinstalled the engine but never put it back on the road.

It sat in the garage until about 1990. At that time, my father retired to Florida and sold the car to a man from Parsippany. I would have bought it then, but didn’t have a garage for it.

In 2016 I went to the NJSRA Father’s day car show, and saw the man that bought the car from my father. When I asked about the car, he told me that he sold it to Bill Ketch and it sits in his shop in Dover.

The next day, I went Bill’s garage, and asked if it was for sale. Unfortunately, he told me it was not for sale.

I started getting to know Bill at some cruise nights, and one day he called me and decided to sell it to me because of my history with the car.

I am keeping it all original and have it mechanically safe (as safe as mechanical brakes can be).

It’s a great car and it will be passed on to my son eventually, but not for a while.

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