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Boss, have you heard from Rick Wright? haven/t spoken to him in probably 20 years! I know John of Purely had health issues back then.


My Ventura wagon has an interesting story. I"m the second owner, the original owner was a pilot who had his own hanger which is where he kept the car.

He won the car on a Good Morning America type TV show in the fall of 1968. Actually he won a new 69 Firebird fully loaded with white wall tires and a radio! But they gave him the option to buy any new Pontiac and just pay the difference, over the $3,000 price of the bird. He took the Wagon instead which had a $5,000 sticker so it cost him $2,000.

He passed away in 2014 at 100 and his son is at a loss why he chose the wagon. He says he never used it as a regular car and never used it as a wagon. The mileage (20 something k) was all monthly Sunday two drives in the country to keep it in running order. In 2014 it still had its original tires.

Maybe he thought of it as his lucky rabbit's foot. He didn't seem to excited about winning a car as I have letters from the PMD zone office in Portland (Oregon) trying for a few months to get him to contact the dealer to collect his prize.