Ford with a Fonda connection
The beginning of this story takes place around 1985 and has little to do with automobiles, say nothing of the Model A about which you’ll be reading. This beginning does, however, deal with one particular brand of motorcycle.
Dick Widme had transformed himself from a used car salesman into a motorcycle dealer, having acquired the franchise for Harley-Davidson in Minot, N.D. He was happy to take your cash, and left you happy to have given it to him. With that charisma, he became quite successful.
This story isn’t really about Dick, either, but about how we meet people and how one acquaintance leads to another. In Dick’s dealer territory lived two bachelor brothers farming their father’s homestead (and then some). In their garage was a pair of low-mileage Lincoln Continentals and their late sister’s almost-new Caprice. Elsewhere on the farm was an award-winning ’57 Thunderbird, a ’40 Ford Tudor, a ’22 Model T touring, a pair of Model TT trucks and a newer Ford pickup. There was also a late-model Harley ready
