Man gets wallet from 1946 Hudson
Found this in the newspaper today:
Man Gets Wallet Back From 1946 Hudson
May 7, 2007 - 6:26pm
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. The year was 1952.
Goodlove was a sailor home on leave from the U.S. Navy. The Hudson belonged to his grandfather, who lived in Western Washington.
He'd long since forgotten about the lost leather billfold, until last month when he got a phone call from a pair of southern Idaho car collectors who told him they'd found the wallet. Inside were a $10 bill, a $1 silver certificate, military identification, Social Security card and a handwritten Washington state driver's license.
"If it was in my sailor-mentality years, I might have attempted to, as they said in those years, 'make out,'" Goodlove, who now lives in California, told the Twin Falls Times-News, on why the wallet went missing.
Earlier this year, Jon Beck, 61, and Chuck Merrill, 72, both from Twin Falls, took out an ad in the local newspaper looking for a classic car to restore. They were offered the Hudson by a man in nearby Oakley, and in April went to retrieve the car, which had changed hands since it belonged to Goodlove's family and wound up in a dilapidated state in southeastern Idaho.
The Idaho collectors stopped at a restaurant on the way back to Twin Falls and were walking past the Hudson when, "I saw something about to fall out," Merrill said. "I said, 'That looks like a wallet.'"
Beck said he'd hoped to find $100 bills.
"Like a couple of kids, we thought we had a gold mine," he said.
Though the wallet contained just $11, it also had some other documents, including several jewelry receipts from 1952.
After an Internet search, Beck found Goodlove, now 75, at his home in San Diego.
Beck began the telephone conversation by asking for the man who used to drive a '46 Hudson.
"There was a silence for about 15 seconds," Beck said. "Then he said, 'Who is this?'"
Beck and Merrill plan to return the wallet and its contents to Goodlove.
Goodlove said the find from so long ago has conjured up memories.
"They've been flowing ever since he (Beck) talked to me," he said. "It's a miracle."
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Information from: The Times-News, http://www.magicvalley.com
(Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. The year was 1952.
Goodlove was a sailor home on leave from the U.S. Navy. The Hudson belonged to his grandfather, who lived in Western Washington.
He'd long since forgotten about the lost leather billfold, until last month when he got a phone call from a pair of southern Idaho car collectors who told him they'd found the wallet. Inside were a $10 bill, a $1 silver certificate, military identification, Social Security card and a handwritten Washington state driver's license.
"If it was in my sailor-mentality years, I might have attempted to, as they said in those years, 'make out,'" Goodlove, who now lives in California, told the Twin Falls Times-News, on why the wallet went missing.
Earlier this year, Jon Beck, 61, and Chuck Merrill, 72, both from Twin Falls, took out an ad in the local newspaper looking for a classic car to restore. They were offered the Hudson by a man in nearby Oakley, and in April went to retrieve the car, which had changed hands since it belonged to Goodlove's family and wound up in a dilapidated state in southeastern Idaho.
The Idaho collectors stopped at a restaurant on the way back to Twin Falls and were walking past the Hudson when, "I saw something about to fall out," Merrill said. "I said, 'That looks like a wallet.'"
Beck said he'd hoped to find $100 bills.
"Like a couple of kids, we thought we had a gold mine," he said.
Though the wallet contained just $11, it also had some other documents, including several jewelry receipts from 1952.
After an Internet search, Beck found Goodlove, now 75, at his home in San Diego.
Beck began the telephone conversation by asking for the man who used to drive a '46 Hudson.
"There was a silence for about 15 seconds," Beck said. "Then he said, 'Who is this?'"
Beck and Merrill plan to return the wallet and its contents to Goodlove.
Goodlove said the find from so long ago has conjured up memories.
"They've been flowing ever since he (Beck) talked to me," he said. "It's a miracle."
___
Information from: The Times-News, http://www.magicvalley.com
Man Gets Wallet Back From 1946 Hudson
May 7, 2007 - 6:26pm
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. The year was 1952.
Goodlove was a sailor home on leave from the U.S. Navy. The Hudson belonged to his grandfather, who lived in Western Washington.
He'd long since forgotten about the lost leather billfold, until last month when he got a phone call from a pair of southern Idaho car collectors who told him they'd found the wallet. Inside were a $10 bill, a $1 silver certificate, military identification, Social Security card and a handwritten Washington state driver's license.
"If it was in my sailor-mentality years, I might have attempted to, as they said in those years, 'make out,'" Goodlove, who now lives in California, told the Twin Falls Times-News, on why the wallet went missing.
Earlier this year, Jon Beck, 61, and Chuck Merrill, 72, both from Twin Falls, took out an ad in the local newspaper looking for a classic car to restore. They were offered the Hudson by a man in nearby Oakley, and in April went to retrieve the car, which had changed hands since it belonged to Goodlove's family and wound up in a dilapidated state in southeastern Idaho.
The Idaho collectors stopped at a restaurant on the way back to Twin Falls and were walking past the Hudson when, "I saw something about to fall out," Merrill said. "I said, 'That looks like a wallet.'"
Beck said he'd hoped to find $100 bills.
"Like a couple of kids, we thought we had a gold mine," he said.
Though the wallet contained just $11, it also had some other documents, including several jewelry receipts from 1952.
After an Internet search, Beck found Goodlove, now 75, at his home in San Diego.
Beck began the telephone conversation by asking for the man who used to drive a '46 Hudson.
"There was a silence for about 15 seconds," Beck said. "Then he said, 'Who is this?'"
Beck and Merrill plan to return the wallet and its contents to Goodlove.
Goodlove said the find from so long ago has conjured up memories.
"They've been flowing ever since he (Beck) talked to me," he said. "It's a miracle."
___
Information from: The Times-News, http://www.magicvalley.com
(Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. The year was 1952.
Goodlove was a sailor home on leave from the U.S. Navy. The Hudson belonged to his grandfather, who lived in Western Washington.
He'd long since forgotten about the lost leather billfold, until last month when he got a phone call from a pair of southern Idaho car collectors who told him they'd found the wallet. Inside were a $10 bill, a $1 silver certificate, military identification, Social Security card and a handwritten Washington state driver's license.
"If it was in my sailor-mentality years, I might have attempted to, as they said in those years, 'make out,'" Goodlove, who now lives in California, told the Twin Falls Times-News, on why the wallet went missing.
Earlier this year, Jon Beck, 61, and Chuck Merrill, 72, both from Twin Falls, took out an ad in the local newspaper looking for a classic car to restore. They were offered the Hudson by a man in nearby Oakley, and in April went to retrieve the car, which had changed hands since it belonged to Goodlove's family and wound up in a dilapidated state in southeastern Idaho.
The Idaho collectors stopped at a restaurant on the way back to Twin Falls and were walking past the Hudson when, "I saw something about to fall out," Merrill said. "I said, 'That looks like a wallet.'"
Beck said he'd hoped to find $100 bills.
"Like a couple of kids, we thought we had a gold mine," he said.
Though the wallet contained just $11, it also had some other documents, including several jewelry receipts from 1952.
After an Internet search, Beck found Goodlove, now 75, at his home in San Diego.
Beck began the telephone conversation by asking for the man who used to drive a '46 Hudson.
"There was a silence for about 15 seconds," Beck said. "Then he said, 'Who is this?'"
Beck and Merrill plan to return the wallet and its contents to Goodlove.
Goodlove said the find from so long ago has conjured up memories.
"They've been flowing ever since he (Beck) talked to me," he said. "It's a miracle."
___
Information from: The Times-News, http://www.magicvalley.com
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Ya, right, a sailor on leave just smooching a dame in the back seat. Did they find his drawers in the car, too?0
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Anything is possible!! right??
Dad went to an auction to purchase a flatbed trailer and an 70 chevy truck came with it. Gets everything to his shop starts going through the truck lo and behold $1500 in a bank money bag. So yah anything is possible. So to say the truck and trailer were almost free:)0 -
This actually made the news here in the UK today. I was dropping my son off to catch his bus to school and the 8.00 a.m. news had an item about this. he was impressed that aHudson had aname check on the BBC.0
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$1,500.00! :eek: And I though I was lucky when I found change in a car.0
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The old man died and this truck and trailer were from his estate and nobody bothered to check out the truck behind the seat. MY 49 has already been blessed. When i takeing everything out of the interior i found an unsed propletic kit (spell check) unsed still in the wrapper but was in no way any good of any sort can still make out the brand and name thou but its hard. Also found a 1945 mercury head dime in there also. Always check the floor boards when redoing a car that hasnt been driven for a long time. Last time that this was tagged and licensed was in 58 from minnestota:)0
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I found a 3/4" Snap-On open/box end wrench stuck in the dirt in the floorboards of my donor Pace Coupe. Actually in good shape. The seller went thru my original Pace Coupe pretty well, cause I never found anything in it.0
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I found a 50 cent piece in the drivers door of my '50 comm., it's worth a half a dollar, now !0
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Anybody else out there find anything good in their cars when they got them. Oh also found an old hack saw between the the right weel well and fender few old nuts and bolts this poor car was hammered when i got it must have been used on a farm at one point had a tow hitch cut and placed through the rear bumper got to get it fixed if i cant got another one that will work. farmers what would we do with out them hehe starve0
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