"Move over Henry Ford - Uncle Marty is here"

Spoke to Cousin Jay yesterday. She is recuperating from knee replacement surgery, followed by an auto accident that required extensive surgery...so lets all leave a comment for her. During our conversation she said she had a story for the BLOG. Jay and her brother Dom were talking about this and Dom told her to tell me about it.

They were reminiscing about the time their father, Uncle Marty, using his creative imagination built his own truck from his circa 1930's car.

It was the very early 1940's, the depression still had its grips on the country. Needing employment, Uncle Marty came up with the idea of selling fruits and vegetable from the back of his car....he knew he actually neede a truck but that was out of the question, so he did the next best thing...he cut the back portion off of his car and built a flatbed type gizmo to fit into the cut away portion...in reality he had created a truck from an old car...each morning he would go to the market and purchase his wares and drive from block to block selling them.....It worked out well for awhile but a family situation forced him to give it up. But his idea, creativity and hard work is something we are all very proud of....