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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe buys a '[https:// | Joe buys a '[https://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=File:HudsonSuperSixClubCoupe_1948.jpeg 1948 Hudson Super Six Club Coupé] in its original metallic | ||
gold color with a huge 300 cubic inch flathead 6 engine' at an estate sale in Bethesda (Maryland).<ref>This is | gold color with a huge 300 cubic inch flathead 6 engine' at an estate sale in Bethesda (Maryland).<ref>This is | ||
a large car, aimed at families, not people who want fast | a large car, aimed at families, not people who want fast | ||
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started Target. Hudson Autos ended up part of American Motors, which | started Target. Hudson Autos ended up part of American Motors, which | ||
Chrysler absorbed later.</ref> The following evening, a parked car | Chrysler absorbed later.</ref> The following evening, a parked car | ||
whose brakes | whose brakes fail collides with it. It's never the same again. 6 | ||
years later, unused, he | years later, unused, he has it towed to a friend's, where it sits for a | ||
couple more years, when the friend's wife | couple more years, when the friend's wife tells him it has to go. Joe | ||
takes it to his mechanic friend, Howard, makes a deal that, after Howard | |||
fixes it up, Joe'll sell it and split the proceeds with him. | |||
Driving it around the weekend after Howard had finished, a fellow, | Driving it around the weekend after Howard had finished, a fellow, | ||
Billy, runs after him, wants to buy it, says he'll look just like | Billy, runs after him, wants to buy it, says he'll look just like |