I can add a pair of car related coincidences...
Back in the late 80's - I'm at the Iola Old Car Show in Wisconsin with my father, my older brother and a friend of my dad's. We're strolling through the car corral (cars for sale) and happen upon a very clean '56 Olds.
Now back in the 50's, my dad worked for the Olds/Caddy dealership in Hibbing, MN. Dad comments on how he sold one just like that to (can't remember the name) and how he took a '52 Pontiac in on trade. The current owner of the car overhears us - and let's us know that this car was originally purchased new in.... Hibbing, MN.
Fast forward to 1997. Same car show. I'm displaying both my '64 GTO and '49 Caddy Limo in the Blue Ribbon area. The '49 Caddy was originally purchased by my dad in 1958 from a Olds/Chev dealer in Ely, MN and I had just completed the restoration in May of 1997. While at the show, the salesman that sold the car to my dad 39 years previously is at the show and sees the car and comments to my younger brother that he's the one that sold it to dad. Regretfully, dad and I were out wandering through the swap meet at the time.
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