I possibly found information on the original owner of my 5 A challenger..

lou432 · February 02, 2015, 05:47:16 PM

As I'm sitting here going through another foot and a half snow storm after we just got two feet last Tuesday in single digits plus or minus with temperature, feeling the need for my stainless girl down in Florida I figured I would take some time and do just a little bit more research and try to find out who this beauty was made for.

Well God bless Google!! through deductive reasoning and logical reasoning along with all the information I have on the bus and in pictures of the bus that I took while in Arcadia I believe I found the original owner ,or at least one of the owners. Pictures below will show names and initials and nicknames possibly? Of a man GC Morton and his second wife GH Morton of Texas and the founder of Morton's potato chips .

Below is a link to a family history of Granville Cecil Morton .

http://www.meanskydescendants.org/showmedia.php?mediaID=1800

and some more photographs of my 5A that I took at Arcadia that leads me to believe I have found the most possible. I will do more research to see if I can verify all of this but I feel fairly confident but my Challenger was his or at least partly his due to the names on the destination scroll / if that's what you call it ?/

Anyway I just wanted to share my excitement in finding this information.
EDIT..... it won't allow me to upload any pictures from my phone?? Says files are too large?

lou432 · February 02, 2015, 05:52:07 PM

okay now I'm a little confused and a bit aggravated, I can't even put one picture / attachment from my phone as an attachment, any of the moderators out there can give me a hint? Resizing? Tapatalk? Not that I know much about any of that lol!

gumpy · February 02, 2015, 08:01:35 PM

Maybe resize. I know there are size limits on photos.

pabusnut · February 02, 2015, 09:50:37 PM

So his company went public in 1961, and Price per share of the stock went from 12 1/2 to 60 in a twelve month period. In January 1964, stockholders voted to merge with General Mills--"the exchange of stock merger will involve an estimated $19 million>"

So the timing would be right to buy a 1965 model MCI and convert from the factory. I think he also gave $1 million to cancer research about that time.

It looks like he died Nov. 9, 1969, so I hope you get to enjoy it longer.

lou432 · February 03, 2015, 04:05:41 AM

yes no doubt Craig resizing is a must. I have windows 8 and in my opinion and I'm not a computer person it is the spawn of Satan! Since I've had it I can't do anything with my pictures. When I tried uploading them from my phone they were just way too big 4 or 5 times the size they should be.
then I tried sending them one by one to myself in an email tagging each of them with a specific name putting them in a specific location and still can't find them via any browse or search. I will attempt to go through some other back door this afternoon after work and post the pictures as without the pictures the article in the link above in the first post is kind of useless. I'll update this evening have a great day!

gumpy · February 03, 2015, 04:13:38 AM

I agree with you re: Windows 8. The first time I saw it, I knew it was the biggest POS ever created by Microsoft! I won't touch it.

Email the photos to me and I'll resize them for you. I can even post them to this thread.

gumpy · February 03, 2015, 05:23:27 PM