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the automobile back together.

“A lot of time was spent hunting for things you wouldn’t even think of, like the rubber to go around a tail light,” he says, noting that the paint job and chrome plating were especially expensiveand tricky. “The way they did chrome back then was very difficult and very dangerous,” Richardson explains, “but we did it right.”

He doesn’t say what the project cost, other than that “you could buy a nice new car with it.”

Richardson’s son, Blake, an LHHS alumnus who admittedly wasn’t particularlyinterestedinthecarwhile it sat in his driveway all those years, says the work his father and Leddy have done is impressive.

René isn’t your average agent. He has many years of experience in your neighborhood, and he consistently ranks as one of the Top Producers in his office. So whether

“They have worked painstakingly over the past year and a half to get every detailrightandmakesurethecar is an accurate representation of what abrand-new1956Fordwouldhave looked like,” he says.

Now that the work is about complete, the owner of this mint-condition Ford FairlaneVictoriaplanstoenjoyhis classic ride.

“Some people say it’s too nice to drive. You should use it as a show car, but I want to drive.”

He does, often on the weekend with his wife, Linda. If you pull up behind them, you’ll know them by, if nothing else, the sticker in the back window: “Made in Texas by Texans”.

—Christina hughes BaBB