DJTurner

Thank you. It was good to meet you as well. Hopefully I'll get to attend more events someday and or our Region hosts more AACA shows annually.

After the show, I got home, unloaded the trunk of the 66 Ford. Then proceeded to sit in the massage chair and watch a movie with my daughter at 9. I missed the whole movie and woke up at 11:45pm. lol Glad you have a good time.

It was fun having everyone visit Auburn with their vehicles over this past weekend. Here is a link to all the photos I took at the Cruise-in on Friday evening and at the show on Saturday. There is a download link on each photo. Feel free to download your vehicle or any photos you want. I'll try to remember to check on the forums if there's any questions or problems with downloading the photos. I rarely log in. I can be found on facebook on the Crossroads of America Region, AACA. I'm one of the admin on the site. Photos will be posted there as well. Sorry if there's a few too many photos of a black 66 Galaxie or a green 36 Buick... I'm a little partial to those two 😉 https://www.dajatuphoto.com/AACA-2023-Central-Spring-Nationals/

Come summertime, I'll post the remake. I live about 12 minutes from the home I grew up in an still know all the neighbors even though we moved away in 1993 +/- . Hoping that the remake will also get me a tour of my old home. 😉 Then I'll go to the local elementary and pose with the car and my outfit by the ball diamonds since I do believe I had on my baseball shirt. The house next to where the photo is taken (can't see the place) is the house where the car's original owner lived. sorry about the 58 Ford. BBQ me some food if you will and eat it for me. I'm in Indiana and the high today was like 15 degrees.

Thanks Michael, much appreciated. All these years and I've never found time to fix it myself.

It all started back in the early days of Waterloo, Indiana, Wally C Tatham moved to Waterloo when he was 6 months old in 1879. At one time he was the town Marshall for 8 years. After awhile he opened a motorcycle and bicycle shop on South Wayne Street. In 1919 he built the Tatham Garage and purchased a Ford contract in 1921. He was a subdealer for Ford four years previous. He owned an operated the first Ford Dealership in DeKalb County. On May 21, 1938, he married Mabel (Mabel is the original owner of my 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Sedan). Wally Tatham died in 1960 and Mabel sold the Ford agency to Bob Miller in 1961. Mabel Tatham purchased a new Ford Galaxie every year after she sold the dealership to Bob Miller Ford until her last Galaxie she purchased in November of 1965. Mabel and her sister Isabelle documented every time they filled one of the cars with fuel or did any repair work to them in a little brown notebook. My parents purchased the house next to the Tatham house on North Washington Street. At the time Mabel’s sister Isabelle was living there as well. Mabel passed in the early 1970’s and as time went on Isabelle became more than the lady next door, she became “family”. Isabelle sold the 1966 Ford Galaxie to my parents in 1982 for $500.00. At that time the BMV in Auburn told my dad that he paid to much for it, however he was offered more than $500 from a local at a gas station. In 1994, my parents sold the Galaxie to me for $1.00. Before 2011 there was a dent on the passenger side front fender cause by Mabel or Isabelle. A good friend of mine whom restores classic cars in Maine gave me a deal I couldn’t refused. After a few months, I had a beautiful partial restoration. More photos of the Tathams and the car can be found on this website: http://redlinersmotorclub.com/2019/03/02/turners-1966-galaxie-500/ Taken about 1982/83. That's me...... hoping to remake this photo someday with the 48 year old me. Just need to find some similar shorts and socks...... Taken in Maine by my friend Ken Clark. My car has traveled further out east than I have. Taken almost across the street from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. This use to be a muffler shop. Since the photo, parts of the building has fallen.

On my way to work, I drive by a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Conv sitting outside in the harsh N.E. Indiana weather everyday....... so sad. A co-worker says that the guy that owns it drives it occasionally. I've yet to see it driving around or moved from the end of the driveway for the past 5 years. Maybe he drove it 2015 ??