Some may already know me as kind of a car freak, so I will exclude my own long list of untheocratic sports cars and hot rods...
But to me at least two others which belonged to high ranking JW servants stand out as being extremely weird and cool:
One was my old friend Marion Dunlap's wallpaper hanging van way back in the early 60's. It was a 1958 Chevy panel van - it was just like a 58 chevy 2 door station wagon, but all the windows were paneled in metal except for the driver and passenger doors. It was also completely painted over in hot rod primer gray. This was future hot rod material - and I knew it even as a 12 year old kid.
My very favorite Circuit Overseer ever was a really great guy named L.D. Bell (leonard duanne, I think,...). He had a 1960 Oldsmobile flat-top 4door that he used to pull their travel trailer from one Congregation to another. This was in about 1968 and the automatic transmission that came in the Olds had long ago been ground to metal dust by pulling that big trailer. A brother in the auto-salvage business in some former circuit had volunteered to fix this car. It was decided that another HydraMatic would just get torn up again, so they put in a Granny four speed from a GMC 1.5 ton farm truck!!! L.D. was joking with me that he had four-on-the-floor in his olds, and I was saying "no way" until he showed me. He also kept egging me on to drive my 67 Corvair Monza into deep mud while out in rural service until we got it stuck. It took both of us about 2 hours to get it out and we got back looking like we had run the Baja 1000. He was the only C.O. who never gave me crap about having a 2 door coupe - even when the Monza got traded for a 911T Targa. He did give me some good natured stuff about Ralph Nader, however!
James
