Thought I heard he sold it to pay the taxes on it.Phil,
I don't know where the guy was from but I remember that he was completely overwhelmed by the car. All he wanted to do was sell it as soon as he got it. I don't who he sold it to.
Thought I heard he sold it to pay the taxes on it.Phil,
I don't know where the guy was from but I remember that he was completely overwhelmed by the car. All he wanted to do was sell it as soon as he got it. I don't who he sold it to.
He may have, I just remember that he really needed to sell the car.Thought I heard he sold it to pay the taxes on it.
Could be the declared value that was the problem. My buddy and I won a S3 Laguna years ago. Raffle stated value at $25,000. Up close the car was a bondo'd POS with nothing matching and a Mako paint job. Taxes were way more than what we thought the car was worth. Never got to see it up close before the drawing. When we went to claim the car, we were told about paying taxes up front. We finally told the Church we had the wrong ticket.
That's cool, my folks live in McMinnville.looks like 62 Biscayne 409
looks like 62 Biscayne 409
Are you sure about the Les Ritchey car? A guy that I knew from here in Chesterfield County Va. (his first name was Wally, can't remember his last name, he passed away about 2 years ago) bought Les's Starliner from him in the mid sixties. He and Wally Duncan, a local engine builder who is also passed away went to Ca. and got the car from Les. They hauled it home on a flat bed truck. Wally had a collection of Starliners up until the mid 2000's when his health failed and he moved into a nursing home. There were several Starliners, including the old race car parked in a field and in a shed on his property for years. After Wally went to the nursing home the cars got sold. A friend of mine both one and is working on restoring It. I have asked but no one seems to know who got the race carButch Leal's '62 Biscayne 409 (suddenly II) which went to Tom & Linda Jacobson (Ole Blue). Potter brother's Ford was Les Ritchey's ex 401 HP '61 starliner.