I Chose The 1938 Plymouth – My Life In Cars – Part 1

This is Part 1 from the book “I Chose The 1938 Plymouth – My Life In Cars – Book 1: Trips & Rides”. If you like it I hope you consider ordering it from the Canadian Stories website.

And here is an excerpt from Book 2 in the Trips & Rides series.

I Chose the 1938 Plymouth

Part 1

Rosenburg School at Arborg
and
Felsendorf School at Gimli

with the 1926 Ford Model T

1. Don’t Go Too Fast
2. Left a Mark

Every time a new car leaves the factory, it becomes unique and unlike any other car in the world. Each new owner takes it where he or she wants to go, often picking up scratches and dings along the way. The second owner does the same, and the third, and the fourth, and so on until the car often reaches its final resting place in a scrap yard. Each owner gives the car a unique experience, adding another chapter to its ‘auto-biography’.
From Bill Sherk in “60 years Behind the Wheel The Cars We Drove in Canada 1900-1960”, Dundurn Press, 2003.

Model T Ford

MODEL T
I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.
Henry Ford, 1907

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author
Ed Janzen (1932-2023) was the editor and publisher of CANADIAN STORIES, a literary folk magazine that publishes short stories and poems from Canadian writers of every province of Canada. Story Quilt is an electronic magazine similar in content. Ed has written six memoirs. He also wrote for the old car hobby and has a column in OLD AUTOS - a biweekly newspaper featuring mostly Canadians events and automotive history.
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