Many of you have meet my dad at either forum dinners, SEMA show, Mojave Mile, GT Guys coming to Maryland, or Rally VII so I decided to post this story. Ever since the Carlisle event that we attended a couple of years back that had the Starliner club attending my dad has been talking about a 1961 Ford Starliner Hipo car that he had when he first got married. It was at that point I decided to find this car for him but little did I know that these cars are next to impossible to find in their regular 390 Z code configuration so finding the Hipo version would take a miracle. I traveled throughout the US this year looking for an Z code car (knowing that finding a Hipo was out of the question) that would be good enough to purchase as a gift but every car I looked at didn't come close to meeting my expectations until one night I ran across a google ad that was about 4 years old on a Z code "Hipo car" so I decided to take a chance the next morning and make the phone call. When I contacted the owner the next morning he was in shock that I was calling about an ad that was 4 years old and I was in total shock that the car was still available. I set up a flight and inspected the car.... Well the rest is history and we presented the car to him this morning on his 70th birthday. He has been my hero forever and I know those of you who have meet him would agree that he is one hell of a guy and very deserving.
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