- Posted on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 11:22 am
A Nice “Bookend”
By Dan Flores
GM Communications
How many people love their car so much that they’ve kept it for 34 years?
Recently retired Moraine Assembly Paint Environmental Technician Randy Hatton is one of the few. On his last day of work, Hatton drove the same 1972 Chevy Nova, now a show car, back to the plant that he drove to on his first day at Moraine Frigidaire in July 1972, completing the circle.
Randy purchased his brand-new Nova when he was 18 years old. He still has the original window sticker for his cranberry red coupe, showing the MSRP of $3,129.70. Even back then he’d made up his mind that he would keep the car forever. Luckily he married a woman, Cathy, who agreed. They now enjoy local cruise-ins and have “retirement” plans for the Nova. No, the car doesn’t go to their kids; it goes to a historical vehicle museum!
Today it has a heavily modified motor and gets about six miles to the gallon on premium gas, due to the modifications, so Randy plans only short trips for this beauty of a car.
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