RRP is a sexy, sexy man

Eggcelsior

Bask in his glory! Bask in it!


This was posted on the other forum, but he's too big not to share!

saluki2007

That there is a MAN!

Dobie

Oct 64 a year before I was born, could be my dad as I'm a sexy mofo myself....

berndcrisp

Is that an XK150?

RRP

Well thank you! That picture was a tongue in cheek entry as a test answering another long time egger who was having problems with Photobucket. Note the date...1964...since I just turned 70 last month I had converted that BW photo for my wife. Sorry that this offended you.

Eggcelsior

@RRP, I'm not offended in the least. I doubt you would ever offend anyone, especially me. I found it funny when I saw it over there so I thought that I would share the wealth.

Spaightlabs

Awesome pic RRP!!!

Thatgrimguy

Do you still have the car?!?!

RRP

Thatgrimguy said:

Do you still have the car?!?!

That was my 1956 MGA 1500 roadster I purchased in the spring of 1964 in pretty bad condition but it ran great for a mere $300. I spent that summer and about $600 for a paint job, new top and this and that and was able to drive it back to college for the last 2 years. Then in 1966 Pat and I graduated on Friday, got married on Saturday and I started job in public accounting in Chicago on Monday! When we left our parents home in MO that Saturday after the wedding we had all our worldly possessions plus $128 cash money crammed in that MGA! Talk about going wide eyed but nearly blind into the world ahead - that was us!

The last time I drove that car was July 1, 1969 and it stalled on the highway in Peoria, IL. I then stored it here and there for years! Last storage it went to a barn outside of town here and that was 1980. I paid $240 a year to store i.e. but after many years I asked the farmer's wife for a break and she never billed me again. 

Then just last month I drove out to check on it and lo and behold the barn was gone as was any trace of my car! No one in nearby farms knew anything other that the old boy died years ago and the land was sold as farm land

I thought I might be able to track it, but back then neither MO or IL registered cars like we know it today..so no title or anything else to go by.

I will probably will never know what happened to my "dream car from 1964". Which is a shame too seeing how it served two young college grads with little more than a pot to piss in when it took us to Chicago in 1966 to start our married life!

RIP where ever you are!

Fred19Flintstone

Judging from the thread title, I'm not sure why I clicked on it. Yet here I am. Nice wheels Ron!

RRP

Fred19Flintstone said:

Judging from the thread title, I'm not sure why I clicked on it. Yet here I am. Nice wheels Ron!

LOL - Thanks! BTW those "white walls" were "falsies" that I bought for $1.50 a piece at Western Auto and Installed myself one tire at a time, by driving over the tire to break the bead, insert the falsie under the rim and then put the wheel in my Dad's trunk and drive up to the "filling station" as they were still called in 1964 and re-inflated the tire to pop it out. My car had 4 tires, no spare and of those 4 tires 3 were by different manufacturers! Besides covering up the difference in the tires with the white wall falsies that was still back when white walls were cool on cars! LOL

johnkitchens

That is a great story Ron. My career also started in public accounting. My wife, and I were also broke financially for the first few years, but life was good and has gotten better. 

I hate to hear that your car has disappeared. Part of me wishes that someone has it that loved it like you did, but the cynic in me wonders if maybe it ended up at a local scrap yard. 

I hope you can find it! 

Botch

Very cool story RRP.  Had a slightly similar event at the end of college, I had to pawn a banjo to eat (the local Shakey's closed).  Went back a year later and the pawn shop was now a sub shop; never did find out what happened to it.  Nowhere near as cool/romantic as an MG, however.

 

 

 

No "Deliverance" comments, mmm'kay?   

NPHuskerFL

Awesome story!

cook861

nice car and thx for the story

DMW

@RRP Your memory of those events from so many years ago is impressive. My brain is wired very different. I cannot remember events like that at all. But factoids with little meaning I can recall like I learned them yesterday.

MaskedMarvel

Good to see the pic. Happy birthday sir.

stemc33

Great story. I had to do a web-search for falsie white-walls. Never heard of such a thing.