Abandoned 46 Ford convertible sitting in a field

[Bolts]

Back in the day, we lived in Southern California. We had some friends who lived in the San Fernando Valley which is about 40 miles from where we lived in Redondo Beach. My friend had helped me locate a woody like he owned and before long we were meeting on weekends working on our cars and just having fun like 25 year olds do. He told me about this Ford convertible that was sitting out in a big field. It was buried up to it's axles, and the top was ruined as was the interior, but it was pretty complete. The yellow paint was still there and nobody had taken anything off the car. It was just an old abandoned car buried down in the weeds in a big empty field. We drove out to it and looked it over.
This subject came up today as my wife and I were outside enjoying the summer afternoon. I was taking a break from dismantling an engine in the garage and she commented on how dirty my clothes were and how terrible that old grease smelled. Fine. Let's move on.
So just making conversation. I told her about the time our friend Austin had taken me by that big field where that convertible was wasting away. I mentioned that that car would be worth a bundle today.
We started talking about how people who have old Fords now are getting up in years (like us) and we wondered what might happen to our cars once the we can't drive any more and they get handed down to younger people.
They may not like them the way we do and I said, sort of asking what she thought might happen.
The little woman has a humorous way of looking at things and popped out with a reply that cracked me up. They'll probably wind up back in that big field again, she quipped.