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1956 Ricks TBird
"Rick Murphey has known this car since he was 10 years old. The car belonged to a neighbor of his Grandpa in Atlanta. In the 80's the Atlanta airport purchased the neighborhood where the Tbird lived. In 1986 Rick went to help Grandpa move to a new home, He went to visit Mr Bloch, original owner of the TBird. The car was covered up, the owner explained that since the accident they had parked it in the garage and had not fixed it or driven it. The registration tag on the car was from 1972, it had been sitting there for 14 years! Rick asked if he wanted to sell it the answer was yes! Unfortunately the price was more than a young man with a growing family could afford. Rick Told his friend Joe about the car. Joe wasted no time going over and negotiating the purchase of the car. Joe had the fender replaced and the car painted and drove it rarely.
Over the next 20 years whenever Rick would speak to Joe, the conversation would start, “when are you selling my car to me?” “NEVER” would be Joe's answer. One day in 2006 the answer from Joe was “today is the day, come and get it”.
The car survived a fire that burned Joe's house. It was the only item pulled out of the house before it burned to the ground.
From 2006 to 09 Rick spent three years doing a preservation of this 54K mile car. Last week Rick visited the now 96 year old Mr Bloch, he presented Rick with all the papers from being picked up at the Ford plant in Dearborn to all the service and registration records."
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