ot: Vino
yup now that you mention that mirror I recall it. My Dad was a Mopar mechanic/body man all his life, well actually about 45 years of it. The dealership (garage) was about 3/4 of a mile from where I grew up, so I was down there quite often from the time I could walk.
One of the coolest things was when the new models were coming out. The cars were shipped by train to a freight depot about 4 miles from the garage. Three or four of the employees would go there to unload them, they were in box cars so no one could see them. After unloading they would cover them with what I recall as being a tarp,covering the whole car wthin a few inches of the ground. In the tarp was a slot where the driver would look through the windshield (windscreen) and they would return to the garage under a vail of secrecy. Back than the new models were kept as secret as possible and all dealers reveled them on a certain date.
And I got to ride in them and see them before most of the world, Wow was I a kid with a secret or what...LOL
Back than as you know you could climb in with the engine close the hood to keep the rain off and do a complete motor job.
When those guys did a motor job "they" did it, honing the cylinders,grinding and seating the valves and much of it by hand. I still have most of my dads tools and the one and only tool box I ever knew him to have. They repaired and fixed, today it is remove and replace.
Enough rambling,
That Pic just brought back some memories and I had been meaning to ask you about your car.
Thanks,
AI
