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Sweet ‘ Sally ’

Randy Denchfield never knew he had a special place in his heart waiting for a fabulous streamline-era LaSalle. He just needed somebody else to help him find it.

“I started a business when I was 26, and when I kind of got my head above water at age 40, I decided to do what I wanted to do,” chuckles the resident of Chevy Chase, Md. “What I wanted was a ’48 Cadillac — that was the year I was born, and the first year of the body change after World War II, and that was a really neat car. So I got one of those, and I started getting more informed, and more into it, and I said, ‘I’d like to get myself a 1930s car,’ but I really didn’t know what. I really didn’t know what I was looking for.”

Denchfield liked the idea of something with prominent fenders, a top that folded down, running boards and maybe a rumble seat in back. And the car had to be streamlined and sexy — not too formal

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