Jim Budd might never have bought his 1931 Ford Model A Tudor if not for a chance meeting after weeks of careful consideration.
“I’d been looking at this ad for like a month,” he recalled. “I’d show it to my wife every night.”
He’d wanted a Fordor and happened to be at Renniger’s — then a well-known Model A shop in Bird-in-Hand, Pa. — talking to Gene Renniger about a Tudor closer to his own home in Seelyville.
“He said, ‘The guy out there in the pickup has got a Tudor, if you’re interested,’” Budd continued, “so I went out and talked to him.”
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