Wish to rent antique car

[Guest kathrich]

My mother-in-law is turning 100. You would never know it. She still drives, plays dominoes n bingo.  She recently had a light stroke, but it did not affect her. She decided to go to the Nursing Home. We are having a party for her on July 1. We wanted to surprise her by having her picked up at NH in Seguin n brought to our home in Nixon. (30 minutes away) one way.

We would like to rent a 37 - 47 antique car. Would someone please help us surprise her?

 

Kathleen Faulkner rkfaulkner4447@yahoo.com

210-445-3737

[Jon37]

Very few people want to rent their antique cars out for functions, mainly because insurance companies would not cover such a transaction and they could be liable should there be any sort of accident in their car.  You could Google New Hampshire for antique car rentals.  Another possibility would be to contact a local region of the AACA and ask the president to announce your request of a car, either at a meeting or in their newsletter.  The person with the car would make it available gratis, but he/she might be rewarded with a nice meal or some other form of appreciation that did not amount to a "payment". 

 

The only AACA in New Hampshire is the Granite Region.  The President is Ken Sommers who lives in Fremont, and his e-mail address is XXXmhupp28@comcast.net (delete the XXX; I've masked the address to defeat the Spam Robots).

 

Edited May 31, 2017 by Jon37 (see edit history)

[Digger914]

You can also try calling around to some of your local luxury new car dealers. Took my Saab into Cadillac last week for the air bag recall to find a VW Thing in the service bay. They don't work on any old "Thing", just the one that is part of the vintage car rental business owned by the same people that own the dealership and you never know what you're going to find in a place where you would never expect to find it.

[John_S_in_Penna]

I think Jon37's contact information for AACA's Granite

Region gives you the best chance of success.  While

people don't "rent" their antique cars for others to drive, they

are often happy to come along with the car and drive their guests.

And contacting the local group in your area puts you

in closest contact with the old car you seek.

 

The cars are used for weddings and for events

like you describe, Kathleen.  Your mother-in-law must

be happy to have such a kind daughter-in-law in the family!

[John_S_in_Penna]

Here's another tip, if you don't mind.

Please don't be too specific in your request.

Since "antiques" range from around 1900 to the 25-year

cut-off of 1992, and cars from the 1950's and 1960's

are seen most often, specifying the one-decade range

of 1937-1947 may mean you're requesting a subset of

only 1/9 of possible antique cars, eliminating 89%!

 

A mother of a bride once asked our club for a

"large white antique car" for her daughter's coming

wedding.  She didn't know that she eliminated probably

95% of all possibilities, and she didn't get a car.

(Cars came in many colors years ago, and white

wasn't even on the color palette until the mid-1950's.)

 

There might be ONE car available, so you might say

"any car before 1960," for instance.  There may be

a 1952 Buick or a 1929 Ford willing to make a memory.

Edited May 31, 2017 by John_S_in_Penna (see edit history)

[R Walling]

 Another avenue that you could pursue is that a dealer in high class automobiles might be happy to give her a test ride in a fancy new car. the advertizing could be a feather in their cap.

[60FlatTop]

A complete surprise might be more surprising than expected. Even in discussions among these forum members what an "old" car can be perception.

 

Back a few years ago I bought a large multi-paned window from a woman at a yard sale. I drove my 1956 Willys-Overland pickup back to... pick it up.

Her Father was there puttering around and he was in his early 90's. When I backed the 50+ year old truck into the driveway he looked at it and said "I didn't know they still made those."

Good thing we weren't trying to impress him.

 

My Mother was just the opposite at 83. A talk about memories and the perception of what they consider an old car would be a good idea.

Bernie

 

Bernie

[John_S_in_Penna]

On 5/30/2017 at 5:36 PM, kathrich said:

...having her picked up at NH in Seguin n brought to our home in Nixon. ...

 

It just dawned on me that "NH" was the writer's

short-hand for "nursing home."  She must not live

in New Hampshire, because the telephone is from Texas.

So our suggested AACA region is off base by half a country's width.

 

Oh, the bane of acronyms!

Edited June 1, 2017 by John_S_in_Penna (see edit history)

[capngrog]

24 minutes ago, John_S_in_Penna said:

 

It just dawned on me that "NH" was the writer's

short-hand for "nursing home."  She must not live

in New Hampshire, because the telephone is from Texas.

So our suggested AACA region is off base by half a country's width.

 

Oh, the bane of acronyms!

 

Even in its proper form, English is an imprecise language, and it is being made even more so by the short hand of "social media", IMHO.

 

Cheers,

Grog

 

 

[mike6024]

Only 35 miles from Seguin to Nixon even if you take the long route through Belmont.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Nixon,+Texas/Seguin,+TX+78155/@29.4135615,-97.9668417,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x86432b683af994a5:0xc9545c006d28bb4a!2m2!1d-97.7644429!2d29.267464!1m5!1m1!1s0x865cb81a303bfdc7:0x9ad8d00ad149d44c!2m2!1d-97.9647269!2d29.5688411