<VV> I Could Use Some Advice

Bill H. gojoe283 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 27 11:57:30 EST 2008


                                                        B"H

Hi everyone...I had some sad personal news.  My Dad passed away last week at 87, and even though he could be a tough father at time, he mellowed in later years, enjoying his children and grandchildren, and told me "I Love You" more than once.

Much if not all, of my enthusiasm for old cars came from Dad.  He had a pretty good knowledge of old cars, and we would often spend pleasant hours reminiscing about the "good old days" of motordom.

And therein lies a problem.  After the funeral and Shiva last Thursday, Mom handed me the keys to dad's mint-condition, low-mileage '97 Mercury Grand Marquis LS Collector's Edition.  "Dad would have wanted you to have the car," she said.

I openend the door, and inhaled the scent of a new car.  Dad's car doesn't have a scratch on it, and its 60,000 miles were lovingly driven with the best of care.  Everthing works, and the car has every comfort, convenience and safety feature for today's cars.  It runs like a dream, nice and smooth, lots of power and lots of posh.

Living in Brooklyn, New York, it's a problem.  It's a crowded city borough, and although I have a townhouse with garage, my '69 gets the garage and the tiny driveway can't really hold anything bigger than the Vair.  Dad's GM and the minivan sort of hang across the sidwalk, and that of course means a possible ticket from NYC's Finest, who are looking to enrich a budget-crunched city's coffers.

So, with a dire lack of parking spaces, and the occasional car break-in (glass all over the street and sidwalk), I can't find the heart to leave Dad's car on the street.

I really want to keep the GM for sentimental value, since it was Dad's pride and joy, but I do love my '69 as well.  Lately I've been tempted to sell her and keep the GM.

What should I do?  Any opinions would be appreciated.  If I do sell the Monza, the buyer will get a 56K miles rust-free Corvair that runs and drives nice and tight, with a new, inexpensive but pretty good paint job, special Super Sport trim, with a virtually perfect body and a car in excellent mechanical condition, with new radial whitewalls that could be driven anywhere, it's literally a turn-key car.

A happy Thanksgiving to all my Vair friends!...Bill Hershkowitz 69 Monza 110 PG



      


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