Little Brown Beauty

By Jim Hagarty
The local plumber’s shop we have used for decades keeps this stylish little Chevy utility truck from 1954 around for sentiment and promotion. Check out the adjustable sun visor. Turner opened up as a plumber in Stratford in 1951, the same year I was born in Stratford. Bit of serendipity: I did a Google search to see if I could find out what this truck would have sold for in 1954 (can’t find it so far), and was directed to a auto valuation service called the Hagerty Valuation Tool. Hmmmm.

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Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.