Inspired by Pe2unias story I just wanted to share a similar story ...
I did a similar thing - although not nearly as cool a car - for my 78 year old dad back in August. Back in the mid seventies, my family spent almost 6 months travelling across the US - 3 of this in a brand new Ford LTD which was - at least to us europeans - an "out of this world" limousine .....
Like Pe2unias dad, mine had often talked about this very special experience - especially because my mother really gave him hell for choosing such a "unnecessarily large car" - we could have done with much less my mother thought ....
About a year ago I started my search for a nice LTD like the one we rented - and the plan was to surprise him a couple days early of the fall family meet, and then spend a couple of days cruising around Denmark with my brothers and my 9 year old son Nicolas ...
I spent a few months looking on Ebay, in the various online trader places and finally found on on Cars On Line that mathed the specs I had. Found a really great car in NJ - a car that spent most its life in the midwest by now owned by an elderly gentleman. Very nice, 25K mile original car in close to perfect condition .....
Importing, inspection etc. took about 3 months - and had to keep everything very secret to avoid any leaks .... so even my wife did not know about it until it finally - and suddenly appeared in my garage a few weekes before the trip. I have found out that keeping my wife in the dark about my car stuff works really well :biggrin:rofl
So one early morning back in late august, me, my son and my 3 brothers (one flown in from China where he lives, one from Germany where he lives) surprised my dad ..... needless to say, we had a great trip with memories that will last forever ...
The LTD is now parked in his garage and any time I call him on the phone, I always have to hear how nice this LTD is being treated :wink
Pictures taken that same early morning ...
:cheers
Anders
I did a similar thing - although not nearly as cool a car - for my 78 year old dad back in August. Back in the mid seventies, my family spent almost 6 months travelling across the US - 3 of this in a brand new Ford LTD which was - at least to us europeans - an "out of this world" limousine .....
Like Pe2unias dad, mine had often talked about this very special experience - especially because my mother really gave him hell for choosing such a "unnecessarily large car" - we could have done with much less my mother thought ....
About a year ago I started my search for a nice LTD like the one we rented - and the plan was to surprise him a couple days early of the fall family meet, and then spend a couple of days cruising around Denmark with my brothers and my 9 year old son Nicolas ...
I spent a few months looking on Ebay, in the various online trader places and finally found on on Cars On Line that mathed the specs I had. Found a really great car in NJ - a car that spent most its life in the midwest by now owned by an elderly gentleman. Very nice, 25K mile original car in close to perfect condition .....
Importing, inspection etc. took about 3 months - and had to keep everything very secret to avoid any leaks .... so even my wife did not know about it until it finally - and suddenly appeared in my garage a few weekes before the trip. I have found out that keeping my wife in the dark about my car stuff works really well :biggrin:rofl
So one early morning back in late august, me, my son and my 3 brothers (one flown in from China where he lives, one from Germany where he lives) surprised my dad ..... needless to say, we had a great trip with memories that will last forever ...
The LTD is now parked in his garage and any time I call him on the phone, I always have to hear how nice this LTD is being treated :wink
Pictures taken that same early morning ...
:cheers
Anders
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