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MGTD..Sports cars were all over California. I wanted one bad. To celebrate my seventeenth birthday I did San Francisco for Christmas in my forty-six Chevy, got back and spotted this brand new one. I bought this rig at Shepherd Motors a local Foreign Car dealer in Eugene, that's what they were called in thoughts days. This was the first TD in Eugene and was one of two or 3 in the state at that time. I traded in my 46 Chevy and $1500.00 and it was mine. They go for 15 to 25g's for a good one now. ....amazing.. In this Adventure,I blasted down to LA to see my friend Paul, in the summer of fifty-five just before I joined the Navy. Still had the draft then. You were going in if you wanted to or not so I picked the navy. Turn out to be a very good move for me. Went down the Pacific Coast Hi Way, through Carmel the land of Art Galleys stopped in San Francisco to see my sweet sister Mary Ellen. . All the cool spots I could find This is me and Paul in a staged posed picture taken with my Brownie camera, at what was then, Playa del Ray Beach. This must of been about the time I decided pictures may be of some value down the road. We were off to Disney Land, it had just opened three months before I got there. We did, Knots Berry Farm, Malibu, all the beaches, Hollywood, all the cool places at the time. The top stayed down the hole trip. We were seventeen and Oregon Boys. It was a blast....it was the 50's life was really good........... So if you are the proud owner of a red 1952 MGTD with green interior and a Bermuda bell under the floor board of the drivers side you have my TD and I know you are having a very good time. The Christmas of 1955 I came home on leave for a few days .While staying with the folks my dad keeps asking that I let him trade my TD in on a new 1956 ford pu he wanted and mom and dad promising to send me my money as soon as the deal was done....couldn't figure out why... he had tons of money.... I resisted, but caved at about the 5th request...........it was my last day at home and had to leave .....I signed my tile and left for Hawaii. Never did get my money. Ugene
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