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Full-Mulberry5018 t1_j21s6cy wrote

Wow-wee! Do you still have it? Betcha it STILL runs fine, if you do.

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tgurnea OP t1_j21sc1v wrote

I sure wish! He was too kind. He sold it and gave the money to charity.

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Pissflaps69 t1_j22mh7t wrote

Sounds like a good man.

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tgurnea OP t1_j22mq8c wrote

He was a wonderful man. He passed away when I was 11 years old but I have so many great memories of him.

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Pissflaps69 t1_j22o05u wrote

What we do echoes in eternity.

You should be very proud of your tutelage. May you carry on his ideals as best you can.

Have a good night.

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Commentment_Phobe t1_j221uhj wrote

What a stone cold baller. Is it me or was he a relatively wealthy man? Looks like a nice suit.

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tgurnea OP t1_j2226ye wrote

He certainly did well for himself, but was not overly greedy so he lived a very modest life. Stone cold baller indeed

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Commentment_Phobe t1_j222oui wrote

Can I ask what this absolutely specimen did?

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tgurnea OP t1_j224579 wrote

He owned an iron mine back in the day!

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Commentment_Phobe t1_j224mh3 wrote

A real iron man. (Sorry) do you know what his farther did? And yours? Amazing to see the lines the run through generations.

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tgurnea OP t1_j225cx9 wrote

That’s a bit much to give to a random redditor haha. I can tell you that golf skill are not genetic cause I suck at it and nobody else in the family works in the iron industry

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Commentment_Phobe t1_j225wg0 wrote

No worriers! Sorry if Iv offended. Family history is amazing is all. If you didn’t get the swing I hope someone got the handsome.

✌️

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tgurnea OP t1_j22754w wrote

Not offended at all! I appreciate the curiosity. I’d like to think I got some of the handsome!

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Jan-Pawel-II t1_j23otaw wrote

Nearly everyone owned a nice suit in the '60s.

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Commentment_Phobe t1_j23q98i wrote

Most people had a suit in the 60s. Yes well done. He has a membership to a golf course that gives away rolls-Royces and owns an iron mine. Op confirmed he “did well for himself”.

It’s a nice suit.

Don’t worry it’s not a huge “faux pas”.

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manorwomanhuman t1_j21svu7 wrote

They make you pay the taxes for winning a car. Ouch

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tgurnea OP t1_j21szns wrote

It’s robbery if you ask me!

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Skittlesharts t1_j22iu6b wrote

I read some comments from former game show contestants who won a lot of prizes and one of them said that the very first thing they did with the car they won was to sell it back to the dealer and just take the money. He said he owed a chunk for the truck and the 5th wheel camping trailer he won, but he was responsible for the capital gains tax to come. He sold the trailer and made enough to take care of the tax burden.

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youreseeingdouble t1_j228xoi wrote

Whatever happened to the guy that hit a hole in one a couple months ago and "won" a pickup truck

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DrinkYoDamnJuice t1_j22gdgq wrote

I would have LOVED to have been around in those days

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woodworkinglovemakin t1_j24aqb0 wrote

IMO This is the best representation of r/oldschoolcool most pictures in this sub belong to r/blunderyears

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ProfessionalBed1623 t1_j23gilb wrote

He sold and gave money to charity because the IRS was going to take the engine as backup withholding tax.

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Stadtpfeiffer t1_j25002j wrote

They had an amazing car collection/museum at Harrahs in those days as the owner was a car collector on a scale similar (possibly greater) to Jay Leno now. Full time repair/restoration staff. He had a goal to own one of everything essentially.

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