P6FH304779 - Thunderbird Registry Number 12042
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12042
P6FH304779
1956
40A - A - XA - 3F - SK860
Dan Flock says: I believe the original owner of my 1956 Thunderbird was Clifford Heimbucher of Berkeley, California, who I'm told bought it in 1956 for his wife. Clifford appears to have been the treasurer for the Sierra Club in the mid-1960's, he was an economist of some repute who testified in some federal "creative accounting" cases in the 1960's as an expert witness.-------------------------
Sadly, I'm told Mrs. Heimbucher fell ill and passed away in the mid-1980's, and Clifford had the car appraised for charitable donation (I've a copy of that) and subsequently donated it to Alta Bates Hospital, a well known hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Alta Bates either sold, auctioned, or otherwise transferred the car to the guy I bought it from, Fred Hornbacher (similar names, kind of funny). That happened in 1985/1986. Fred Hornbacher sold medical equipment, and in the small world department, sold an X-Ray machine to my mother in law's company a few years back, they remembered him when I spoke to them about the car. I believe that medical supply company is his connection with Alta Bates, and makes me wonder if the car was raffled off or auctioned at a fundraising event. In any case, Fred lived in Larkspur, just North of San Francisco, and I'm in Santa Rosa, just North from there. The car has always been in the bay area, as far as I can tell. So technically, I'm the fourth owner, not the third as I believed, though Alta Bates is more like a broker/dealer for ownership purposes. ----------------I also own Registry Numbers 17051 and 22066.
Dan Flock
10/30/2003
312 V-8
Intact
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