Okay, I just spent 15 minutes writing a great disseration about my life, hit submit and it disappeared. I will try again. My name is Carter Sandvik. I live in Fargo. My youngest son Rob just picked up a '60 Chev Biscayne four-door Sunday down in the cities. He has always liked '60 Chevs and thought this would make a good driver. It was advertised as a 24,000 mile car. Some signs point to it being 24,000 miles others point to it being 124,000 miles. As we've found out many times in the past when it comes to old cars, don't count your chickens before they hatch. The Chev needs some work but the parts are cheap and we can do the work ourselves. Hopefully, it will be on the road this weekend. Rob is 25, he bought his first car, a '56 Plymouth, when he was 15. He still has the car. He also has a '60 Chrysler Windsor hardtop taking up half of my garage space. It's in the works, but Rob is fixing up a house and that takes much of his time. My wife and I just sold our house of 18 years and bought a fixer-upper so I haven't had much time in the garage either lately. Between the two of us we've had quite a few '67-'72 Chev pickups over the years. My daily driver for the past seven years is a '71 Chev Super Cheyenne. I have a '65 Dodge Polara 2 dr hdtp. that my folks bought new at Balmer Motors in Moorhead. They had it the first 20 years and I have had it the last 20 years. Each one of my four sons have used the Dodge as a daily driver at one time or another. It's changed colors a couple of times and even made a few appearances at the drags. A couple years ago we decided to clean it up and get it back on the road again. We just finished painting it this spring. My oldest son has had a couple of '69 Chargers (including a General Lee now owned by Jeff Phillip) and a '70 Charger. I've had a '60 Chrysler hardtop and a couple '57 and '58 DeSoto hardtop projects that I had to sell before I finished. In '97 I had a '65 Dodge Monaco hardtop in the Toppers Show and Rob had his '56 Plymouth there. A couple years ago Rob and I had a '28 Ford Roadster hot rod in the show. I began reading the old "little" car mags back about 1957. In 1958 a kid who worked at my grandmother's grocery store in north Moorhead gave me a '58 Ford convertible model kit for Christmas. I took some clay (before I discovered bondo) and customized it. I haven't been able to take my hands off cars (real or not) since then. I love old school rods and I read Ol Skool Rodz. I was a newspaper reporter/editor in various small towns for the first 18 years after I got out of school and the for the past 18 years I have been writing catalog ad copy for Swanson Health Products in Fargo. I found your website shortly after it went live, but I just officially logged on this week.
Carter Sandvik
Carter.sandvik@swansonshealth.com
