MA'AM IS THIS

MA'AM IS THIS THE DESOTO THEY OFFERED 2000 FOR YES I NEED MONEY AND I KNOW ITS VALUE FLORENCE THIS CAR IS WORTH FAR MORE THAN THAT OFFER MY HUSBAND BUILT THIS GARAGE AROUND CARS LIKE THIS YOU READY TO SO CHEAP BECAUSE I AM SCARED AND THE BILLS KEEP COMING 1947 DESOTO THIS TESORO WAS NOT SITTING OUTSIDE FLORENCE'S OLD VINTAGE AUTO SERVICE 30000 MILES GARAGE BECAUSE SHE FORGOT WHAT IT MEANT IT WAS SITTING THERE BECAUSE PASSED AWAY THE GARAGE BECAME FOR HER TO WHEN I FIRST MET FLORENCE SHE WAS STANDING BESIDE THE DUSTY OLD CAR WITH HER CANE AND THE OTHER RESTING ON THE HOOD WAS SAYING GOODBYE BEFORE SHE WAS READY SPENT HIS LIFE FIXING CARS IN THAT BUILDING AND THIS TESORO CAR HE KEPT FOR HIMSELF ALWAYS SAID REPRESENTED EVERYTHING BUILT WITH HIS OWN HANDS BUT NOW FLORENCE WAS 86 ALONE SCARED AND BURIED SHE COULD NOT KEEP UP A NEIGHBOR HAD ALREADY OFFERED HER ONLY $2,000 CAR WAS TOO DUSTY AND TO SAVE FLORENCE ALMOST BELIEVED HIM NOT KNOW ITS VALUE THE BILLS KEPT COMING AND THE GARAGE FELT LIKE HOME WEIGHT ON HER SHOULDERS THE DESOTO I KNEW IMMEDIATELY IT WAS NOT SCRAP UNDER THAT DUST PIECE OF AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY AND I COULD NOT LET SOMEONE STEAL HER HUSBAND'S FOR ALMOST NOTHING FLORENCE NOT TO SIGN ANYTHING WE STARTED BY TIRES AND PARTS AWAY FROM THE WIPING YEARS OF DIRT FROM THE CLEANING THE ORIGINAL POLISHING THE DEEP BLUE PAINT AND CAREFULLY CHECKING THE ENGINE THAT HAD NOT RUN IN 17 YEARS EVERY TIME ANOTHER SECTION CAME BACK TO LIFE ANOTHER STORY ABOUT HER HUSBAND HOW HE WORKED LATE NIGHTS IN THAT GARAGE WAS WHEN THIS TESLA ROLLED IN AND HOW HE GOOD WORK SHOULD PERSON WHO DID IT DAY THE CHROME WAS STARTING TO SHINE DAY THE BODY LOOKED THE FORGOTTEN CAR THEN WE FOUND CHANGED EVERYTHING THE ORIGINAL PAPERWORK TUCKED INSIDE AN OLD DRAWER IN THE GARAGE OFFICE PROVING THE CAR WAS FAR MORE SPECIAL THAN FLORENCE EVER REALIZED I CALLED A AND SENT HIM THE DETAILS HE WENT SILENT FOR A MOMENT THEN SAID HE WAS DRIVING OVER THE NEXT MORNING FLORENCE LOOKED AT SHAKING HANDS AND ASKED IS IT REALLY WORTH MORE THAN I TOLD HER MA'AM TOMORROW YOU'RE GOING THE TRUTH THE NEXT MORNING THE COLLECTOR PULLED INTO THE JUST AS WE TURNED THE KEY TIME THE ENGINE COUGHED WHOLE GARAGE WENT SILENT AND FLORENCE GRIPPED HER CANE WAS STANDING BESIDE HER AGAIN THEN THE DESOTO MADE ONE MORE SOUND AND EVERYONE COMMENT PART TO IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHETHER LEARNED THE REAL VALUE OF HER HUSBAND'S CAR