1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for Almost a Century

Re:1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for A... by rmason on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:47AM (#26130449)

Thank you. I said at my father's funeral that he collected everything to do with the Wills Sainte Claire. He befriended C. Harold Will's two sons. The widow rode in my Dad's car in a Detroit parade.

We were at a Wills event and coming back from the bathroom I heard two ladies talking about riding in the rumble seat of a car with their Grandmother in a parade in Detroit. I said would you like to meet the guy whose car you rode in? They were delighted and my Dad wrote letters to them until weeks before passing away at 101.

My Dad served as a great example to me although my passions are more of the geeky kind.

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Re:1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for A... by jacquesm on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:30AM (#26130604)

Such a treasure. I was talking to a priest the other day about a nun that is alive today at the age of 117, to imagine all the things that she's seen for the very first time during her lifetime, to have conscious memory of two world wars and everything that has been invented during that time. That must give such a tremendous perspective on life.

You are - and you probably already know this - very fortunate to have had a father like that.

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