Category: Every car is a story.
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CATCH A FALLING STARLINER
Back in late summer of ’56 Big Jim Tuttlebaum sent his only daughter, Talia, off to college at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. She was a beautiful girl, Texas born and bred with every advantage a man of wealth can offer a child, the spitting image of her gorgeous mother but with…
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CLIFFORD AND EARNEST TAKE A TRIP
Back in January of ’51 Clifford and Earnest, best friends since their time together in junior high at Our Lady of Immeasurable Concern, packed up Cliff’s old Plymouth Cranbrook and headed to New Mexico for an extended weekend ski trip. It started snowing outside Lubbock. By Amarillo it was a full blown blizzard and Cliff could…
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REX HALL’S BAD DAY
It’s true that these were known as “Doctors’ Cars” back before imported cars owned the market. However, they were known to be popular with other areas of the medical profession, as well. Back in ‘64 Rex Hall, the pharmacist here in Fort Stockton went down to Pecos Buick/GMC/International Harvester and ordered a new Wildcat convertible…