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Boyhood Memories

By H. Upshur

290 Appletree Drive, Media, Pa. 19063

The earliest recollection that I have of an automobile is that of playing in my Dad's 1925 Ford touring as it was parked under the big oak tree in the back yard down in Virginia. Dad was a farmer, and cared nothing for cars except to get around in, thus the state of the car was usually deplorable. I was about four years old and this perhaps launched me on a life long love of cars. At any rate, that Model T was finally replaced in 1929 by a Chevrolet Sedan, the new six cylinder model, and my mother learned to drive that, as she had never quite felt up to the rattle-trip "T". Dad promptly took to the fields and rutted roads of back woods Virginia with the new Chevrolet much to Mother's dismay and so the Chevrolet began to deteriorate also. He let the water get low on a trip to South Carolina which warped the head, necessitating a d...

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