Bob Belsley
Fast forward to early 1994. I develop a Mid-life Crisis and need to have a white 1950 Ford. While killing time in a bookstore waiting for an airplane, I pick up an Auto Trader magazine. There was my new baby waiting for me in Wheeling, West Virginia. A fast phone call, a few dollars and a flatbed and the Hawthorne green 1950 Tudor Custom was mine. Ironically, the original color of my first 1950 Ford was Hawthorne green.
I could have driven it home but did not want to take the chance of a breakdown. It was a good driver with the original interior. I drove it for about six months without doing much to it.
Six moths after I got the Ford I received a flyer that the 40th reunion for the Woodrow Wilson class of 1955 was scheduled for October 1995. Here the restoration begins in October, 1994, with one year to complete the job so we can take the Ford to the reunion. Out comes the original but worn interior.
The headliner was in fair shape but the interior was removed and was replaced.