Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 09, 2024

If the car was all electric, would that change things?…..

A beneficiary of a DeSoto Scholarship.

My father had one, it dined on torsion bars and never run when it was misty outside. It resided behind our house until they towed it away. Beautiful car, I was only 8 or so.

Old cars can be money pits.

In the 60s I had an older MGB. Things I could not fix I used a local mechanic. He was straight from Hungary, very smart and thorough but not cheap. I think each year he would buy a rental home with his profits. He had fled communism and was so glad to be in the USA.

At least you can see the engine to do the work on.

Enabling another one of his kids to be trained to be able to work on repairing some old clunkers.

Perhaps Baldo should take his there

A big thanks to all you folks that keep those old beauties on the road. They are like travelling art museums.

Last year I put $6600 into my old cargo van, injectors and ECM. But, replacing it is north of $60,000.

Since 1960 I’ve owned nearly all the Volvo models including an 1800E. Still have a 1993 last model year of a 240 Volvo SW.

And guess who’s gonna treat Cosmo when he gets older.

He can tell when the car’s coming in…just call it “in tuition”.

It’s a collectible!

“8 out of 10 say DeSoto again” — old advertisement.

According to the way it is drawn it is a ’58 De Soto. He should be having a hard time finding parts.

My doctor said the very same thing…

Click and Clack, of NPR Car Talk fame, always had boat payments to cover!

So where does Cosmo get enough money to put even one of Irv’s kids through med school? Seems to me that there must be a side — and a side business — that we haven’t yet seen.

Maybe they can take care of Cosmo.

Based on the cost of a state school when I went to college, I’ve put several people through college with the shoes I’ve bought just from the one store.

We had a Buick minivan for a few years. Bought it for $9k, put at least that much into it with all the break downs, and was so sick of it, took $400 as a trade in. (my conscience wouldn’t allow me to sell it to some other poor soul…I’ll let the car dealer burn in hades for that!)

Get rid of the 1959 De Soto. How about a nice 1964 Ford Galaxie instead?