1st Kiss = 1st Car = 84 years old & still driving his first car


	1st Kiss = 1st Car = 84 years old & still driving his first car

syncopath

10-9-2007 2:29 PM

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cars, kisses, and faithfulness :)

syncopath says:

salute !! .. ))

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10-9-2007 5:19 PM

knslyr

Awesome clip, awesome story.

10-10-2007 4:47 AM

davboz

That's a man.

10-10-2007 8:55 PM

NonStatQuo

Superb clip

1-29-2008 11:42 PM

Aribeth

She was the first and only girl I ever kissed in the car

which carries memories of that first kiss

"It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting"
Hearts in atlantis

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Clarence Cleveland Curtiss, of Shelton, with his 1929 Ford Model A, which he bought in 1938.
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