{"id":1870,"date":"2024-03-15T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustyrestorations.org\/?page_id=1870"},"modified":"2024-03-17T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T12:07:56","slug":"57-met","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rustyrestorations.org\/?page_id=1870","title":{"rendered":"57 Met"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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1957 Metropolitan, my first old car
I bought it in Boulder in 1976 and used it for my daily driver until 1984. I was told it belonged to the night watchman at the Rocky Flats Atom Bomb trigger plant. In Colorado, I kept golf clubs and skis in it and would take it golfing in the summer and drive up to Eldora in the winter to ski. After I moved to Endicott, I took a body shop course at BOCES and decided I did not want to paint. I had rebuilt the engine and spiffed up the engine compartment, but the body was alittle beat up just from life, and from the class at BOCES. I took out the interior and took it to a body shop to paint. It was kind of a backwards restoration, but eventually it went on to win an AACA Grand National Senior then a repeat AGNM Senior and a Met Club Gold for being authentic. It has spent time at Northeast Classic Car Museum and is still one of my nicer restorations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1957 Metropolitan, my first old carI bought it in Boulder in 1976 and used it for my daily driver until 1984. I was told it belonged to the night watchman at the Rocky Flats Atom Bomb trigger plant. In Colorado, I kept golf clubs and skis in it and would take it golfing in the … <\/p>\n

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