My wife and I went for a drive on a nice sunny day last week with friends Brad, in his 1965 Mustang and Richard and wife, in his 1966 Charger Hemi. We went to the small village of Oakdale, Ontario to see an old Imperial Esso station that opened in 1946 and closed some time in the '60's. It looks like someone locked it up and just walked away. A guy across the road owns it now and maintains it and shares it with old car fans. He has a lot of petroliana saved inside. I put about 200 miles on my R/T that afternoon on quiet secondary paved roads and we all had a great time. At one point, we made a wrong turn and wound up at a street reconstruction site. As we were considering turning around, the dump truck driver leaving the site said to wait a minute, and the bulldozer operator would push part of the freshly dumped pile of gravel down and let us through. Pretty sure that would not have happened if we were in our regular cars. The construction crew all gave us Thumbs Up for our cars. My wife and I finished up the day with a delicious perch and fries supper at a Port Stanley, Ontario restaurant with Richard and his wife.
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