John Reddie was just twelve years old when his mother bought him his first car. It was a 1935 Plymouth rumble-seat coupe and cost just $15. This was the beginning of his lifelong love of and fascination with vintage American cars.
In this memoir, Reddie gives a glimpse of his life as he reflects on all of the cars he's owned and all of the cars he could have owned. From the misadventures to the successes, Cars I Loved and Lost narrates a trip down memory lane-from the first car that actually ran to the first car he actually drove. With a few repair tips included, Reddie's story recalls...
John Reddie was just twelve years old when his mother bought him his first car. It was a 1935 Plymouth rumble-seat coupe and cost just $15. This was t...
When Doug Croft lost his parents to a drunk driver as a child, his uncle Harold took him in. Years later, Doug has grown to adulthood when Harold passes away and leaves everything to his nephew, including a sizeable property and home at 66 Valdera Street. Doug now has a house and a good job at the local shipyard. He just needs someone to share his life with. By chance, he meets twenty-two-year-old Lurene Stafford, a beautiful, single waitress at the diner where Doug goes for lunch every day. He's immediately drawn to her, soon finding himself in love. Although Lurene doesn't really love Doug...
When Doug Croft lost his parents to a drunk driver as a child, his uncle Harold took him in. Years later, Doug has grown to adulthood when Harold pass...
When Doug Croft lost his parents to a drunk driver as a child, his uncle Harold took him in. Years later, Doug has grown to adulthood when Harold passes away and leaves everything to his nephew, including a sizeable property and home at 66 Valdera Street. Doug now has a house and a good job at the local shipyard. He just needs someone to share his life with. By chance, he meets twenty-two-year-old Lurene Stafford, a beautiful, single waitress at the diner where Doug goes for lunch every day. He's immediately drawn to her, soon finding himself in love. Although Lurene doesn't really love Doug...
When Doug Croft lost his parents to a drunk driver as a child, his uncle Harold took him in. Years later, Doug has grown to adulthood when Harold pass...
In 1987, Jeff Marner is thirty-one years old. Due to his drug and alcohol use, he has been fired from several trucking companies. He makes ends meet by taking jobs as a day worker, but even then, Jeff takes money from his mother to support his unhealthy habits.
He gets a lucky break when he wins the lottery and buys a tractor-trailer rig of his own. Jeff meets another trucker named Ingrid Jansen. The two fall in love, and due to her influence, Jeff is finally clean.
His father, a prominent artist locally, had passed some years earlier-and now his mother becomes terminally ill and...
In 1987, Jeff Marner is thirty-one years old. Due to his drug and alcohol use, he has been fired from several trucking companies. He makes ends mee...
After being buried for thirty-one years under fallen trees in a forest as the result of a severe hurricane, a 1936 Hudson is discovered by two hikers, Karen Conroy and Neil Warner. While looking over the badly rusted remains of the car, they come across an item that turns out to be a major contributor to a teen aged girl's disappearance that happened thirty-one years earlier and any hopes until now of learning what happened to her had been all but exhausted.
The story then traces back to the time when the Hudson was new and the various owner's lives during the time that they owned the...
After being buried for thirty-one years under fallen trees in a forest as the result of a severe hurricane, a 1936 Hudson is discovered by two hike...
