R. Button

Normal garage sale day, People coming looking over the stuff we had packed into the garage. I had to pull my Mark I out in the driveway as currently my shop is home to a 1970 VW getting a body off rebuild (another story) .


A mom, her mother, and a 13 year old boy, drive up and as the boy gets out of their car he’s pointing to my Mark I asking if it is a C***a. So I say yes, a replica of a 1965, designed by Factory Five Racing. His mother says he has never seen one BUT he loves them. She tells him go get his “car” so he runs back to the car and returns with a pair of C***a, metal car models. One is in a small “shadow” box of an old car shop. He’s standing there staring at my Mark I still so I open the door and tell him climb in. He’s not saying much, kind of shaking a bit. I tell him it’s ok, it’s only a car. If something happens it will just give me something to fix or work on. So he gingerly climbs in the car. He’s looking all round in the car. Then points to Dick Smith’s signature on the glove box, so I explain who that man was, and how lucky I was to have him sign my glove box. The kid still is not saying much. His mom is taking pictures of him in the car and wants me to stand by the car for a picture.


She is telling me that he has been searching for posters of C***a’s to put up in his room. He has not found any yet. I say wait just a sec, and go get a roll of posters of C***a’s I have collected over the years and give him the roll. Finally the kid speaks! “ Has this car ever been on a race track?” I tell him of some of the tracks my Mark I has been to. He says can’t believe it, to which I tell him I have the in car videos to prove it. Wait just a sec I say as I head back in the house and come back with a couple of DVD’s I had burnt with copies of in car video’s and also one of FFR’s DVD’s. This kid is slowly walking back to his car hands full of C***a stuff, he sets them on the car seat … comes running back … to me to give me a hug and a thank you!


Now that was my day at a garage sale!