Once a year, when it came time to travel to the family reunion, Lawrence Henderson pulled his black 1949 Nash 600 Super from its garage, dusted it off, drove there and back, washed it down, then drove it back into the garage to await next year's reunion. "He just didn't drive it," said Clyde Henderson, Lawrence's nephew. "Maybe once it a while he took it out in the summer for a drive around town, but he had another car, an old Chevrolet, that he drove most of the time." Whether he bought it intending to preser
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Posted by Daniel Strohl - Once a year, when it came time to travel to the family reunion, Lawrence Henderson pulled his black 1949 Nash 600 Super from its garage, dusted it off, drove there and back, washed it down, then drove it back into the garage to await next year's reunion. "He just didn't drive it," said Clyde Henderson, Lawrence's nephew. "Maybe once it a while he took it out in the summer for a drive around town, but he had another car, an old Chevrolet, that he drove most of the time." Whether he bought it intending to preser... [Read More](
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