{"id":1115,"date":"2011-09-19T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/theyre_gone.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:37","slug":"theyre_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/theyre_gone.shtml","title":{"rendered":"They’re Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDad was in town this weekend and after stopping by Cars and Coffee<\/a> on a beautiful Saturday morning, I decided to take him downtown to see those old cars<\/a>. Instead, we were greeted with the scene above. After sitting there for months, perhaps years, they’re all gone.
\nDid the owner find more suitable storage? Did they get sold off to other collectors? Did he finally embark on those restorations that he’d been meaning to get to? Or, perish the thought, did he stop paying his parking fees and they get towed away and sold for scrap?
\nWe likely will never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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