1941 Convertible- 10,000 Original Miles !!!

[GaryU.]

The music store I work at moved locations a few years ago and we are currently across the street from a large health club just outside Madison, Wisconsin. Right after the move when summer weather hit I started to see some very interesting cars. First was a 1936 Ford Phaeton, then an early 1950's Chrysler woodie, a few days later a Jeepster. Turns out they all had the same owner who belonged to the club and stopped by to work out. I never got to meet him till a few weeks ago at a cruise-in at a local restaurant when he arrived in a 1941 Ford Convertible. His name is Ron and he's been involved in Madison real estate for quite a few decades but his real passion in automobiles. Ron has about 28 cars currently ranging in age from the mid 1920's to a 1964 Corvair. A lot of his cars are convertibles including a 1939 Ford coupe and a 1948 Lincoln, but the reason I'm concentrating on the 1941 is it now has just over 10,000 miles total since new! You might scoff at this but the history on this car is documented from it's purchase in 1941 by a school teacher named Sarah Wright who lived in Door County, a part of Wisconsin that is a large peninsula that juts out into Lake Michigan. She had this as a second car that was only used in very good weather during the summer months, the rest of the year it was parked in a heated garage attached to her house on blocks with the battery removed which was kept at the local garage and maintained. When she finally sold the car to her neighbor in 2007 it had less than 7,000 miles on it. He had his primary home in Madison just down the street from Ron. When he had some financial issues the next year he sold the car to Ron who likes to drive at least one or more of his cars in good weather every day so Ron has put on 3,000 plus miles since he's owned it. Ron has had 5 people that are involved in restorations look at the car and all verify the authenticity of its history. Ron contacted the garage that the oil change tag belonged to and the owner knew all about the the car since his grandfather was the one that would go to Sarah Wright's house to put it up and take it off blocks each year. If you notice the tag from 1989 it records the miles as 4900 plus. Sorry for the long winded post but I think this is a car that is worth it. GaryU.