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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1956)
14-Sec II) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Aug. 19, '58 2H.Ycar-01d Cars Receive Steady Use tr.'i By FRED INYDER MADISON. Wis. fl - Phil Campbell hat twt 15-year-old auto' at his bom here. Both still have iheir original upholitery ami pains Jobs and both art la A-l hap. But Campbell doesat keep them : merely because thejr'ra old. Hf .uses them to drive to and J from'' work and for pleasure. I They'-e his only cars. He uses ; them alternately so both get about ' the(mo use. IdIudinf annual vacation trips he and his wife take, Campbell puU some 1,000 miles on each car every year. Campbell Bearing 08, is with the livestock buyinf department of b'ff meat packing plant her. . He does 10 radio stints and one television ihow a week, inform ing farmers of southern Wiscon sin of commercial livestock mark eting conditions. "Cetting tougher and tougher to aae the ears," he notes. . Battst Bay ' "Stopped all lbs time by people who want to bay m or ask ques tion about era. Campbell has Instruction books that came with each car. They art thumb-won and grease marked. He does hi, own greas- Uif..,i changing and repairs. The cart art built high enough so b can roll under and tu the hand-operated great guns that came with them. Bath car art rat models. One it a. six cylinder Chevrolet coupe will a windahield (hat roll up and a rar window that . slide dowi. Air CMkBUtaed "Brst air conditioning any car ever-had." Campbell boast. The other is Model A Ford l-pagsenger 4-cylinder Job with a convertible top. Memories ar attached to the : For H bought It la May of 1KB with- U.300 mile on it for $250 for two teen-age daughter. w,. "Most educated car in tb coun try, b claims. "Attended a high school la Wad isonr Ripen and Bekrit Colleges, th .University of Wiiconsia and Michigan Stat at East Lansing." "Th girls went through two tops," Campbell says. "Now I leavo the third on up all the time. Should last forever." m Paaad of Metal - After the girls left to live in Texas and New York stat he not ed (h Ford bounced with a light er cargo. So he dumped in M0 pound at metal under th back eat. "Bide fine." V ayt. to 1164 Campbell owned edy tnTora and auned a new Meat Ha was fered $37.50 a a tret-in. - "Got me klnda aor e I elded to look for another of the . tame vintage," he cay. He bought th Chevrolet for $50 front a Dane County farmer. K (till ha three of Ha original tire. It had ZJ.SO mile a It when he got It. Campbell aim t drive both a long as he' able. H made one modern coocessto. H put a radio in each. Ceet. Lew "1 get where I want to go and th " cost is negligible," h say. "The Ford' rambled from Ala bama te Ontario In a north-a nd aouth directloa and from Wyoming to Main east-and-west." Campbell intlits both cart hav a lot of life left because they were built for rough road and mud holea. "Along cam good roads," he point out. "Now thes buggies will never wer out." 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