Some Wise Words From Norm's Coupe

[55 Fargo]

I came across this post that Norm's Coupe wrote a few years ago, it was in a thread I was searching.

Enjoy Your Car While You Can

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We should all enjoy our cars while we can. You never know how long you have to enjoy them until it's too late.

Just found out on New Years Eve a member of the old Ford V8 club locally was given only 3 months to live. Has cancer. Real nice guy and would do whatever he could to help a friend. He did get another opinion and that one gave him about a year. The guy owns a beautiful 46 Ford convertible that he restored his self. Also had a 36 Ford Coupe project going and another project Ford about the same year next to it. Just a few months ago he also bought a 48 Nash coupe that is just a nice old car that is just ok for driving around. He has all kinds of nice parts laying around in his shop too. In fact he gave me a real nice pair of NOS aftermarket universal rocker panel moldings (stainless) still in the wrapper a few years ago. He thought I was missing the left side for mine at the time because it was off when I drove the coupe to the Goodguys show. Told him I had the stainless, but.........he insisted I take his NOS rocker stainless. He also had a real nice pair of 49 Plymouth bumpers on the rack in his shop that I could have had real cheap. The list goes on for the stuff he has laying around.

Now, he's sold the 36 Ford project he was working on. Has a buyer lined up from the NSRA show for his 46 convertible and is also selling the other Ford project. Sold the 49 Plymouth bumpers to someone else he knows last week for only $100 for the pair. Said he wants to get rid of everything he can so his wife doesn't have to contend with it after he's gone. He's going to hang onto the Nash to drive around in as long as he can though.

He has gotten a lot of enjoyment out of his 46 convertible the last 6 or 7 years. He drives it quite often.

The point here is, not only should we have fun with the old cars while we can, but try not to have a lot of extra stuff for the wife to get rid of when we're gone. That can be a real burden to a wife, especially if she doesn't know anything about the cars and parts, like most wives.

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[Young Ed]

Thanks Fred and thanks Norm. Hope you are watching over us from the great beyond.

[LuckyDevil]

I am fairly new to this forum, yet reading some of the old post, you get an idea of what kind of guy he was.

Thanks Norm.

[randroid]

Folks,

Amen!

-Randy

[RobertKB]

Sure do miss Norm!

[PatS....]

Thank Fred.

Food for thought there for sure.

I, too, miss Norm.

I have been taking more time to smell the roses lately.

[BobT-47P15]

Good advice, alright.

Lately I've started putting the date I bought an item, (whether from

a swap meet or ebay), and the price paid - on the bottom or back or

on the box of the item.

That way, when it's time to do something with those things, either

the Mrs or the kids will know what the item was worth when purchased.

If they decide to sell, hopefully they can get at least that amount of

money from the stuff.

It's also the reason we've been trying to take some cruises, and some

trips to see things and visit people......do it while we can.

[Niel Hoback]

Odd this should come up right now. Yesterday Louise and I said to each other, "Why not now, even though we don't need it"? So we went and bought a 2010 Buick Lucerne CXL Special Edition. We pick it up tomorrow. We agreed we didn't do this because we need to, we just want to. Norm knew what he was talking about. Again. Still. Thanks.

[JIPJOBXX]

I met a guy a few years ago that must have had 30 or more old Kaiser Frazer cars. I ask him why did he have so many and he stated it wasn't for him it was for his wife inheritance. I just thought why in the world would anyone want to put on someone else's shoulders all those cars that put together weren't really worth that much. I have told my wife I just want to give the Dodge to the Le May museum and that be it. Old cars are fun but usually are just a hobby to keep one busy. I belong an old car club and I'm almost a youngster in that club and you should see how much money they have in that club. And the sad part of it is that there is no one joining this club partly because the younger generation really could car a hoot about old cars. Well that's ok by me as we grew up with our old junks and now those old relics are from the past not the future.

[DLK]

Many of us "newbies" here never had the good fortune to meet Norm but we still can benefit from his many postings here in the forum.

[Robert Horne]

Norm was a very intelligent person from reading many of his post. He had a deep understanding of what our hobbie is all about and that many of us enjoy the hobbie in a different way...

[Niel Hoback]

A couple of times Norm said things that made me understand why I thought the way I did about some things. Yeah, he had a good insight.