He had averaged 75 mph, 12 hrs=900 miles, from Gonzales, Tx. to St. Louis, Darby was in High-Speed Heaven.
A couple of numbers to fly high w/ and just stopping to fuel, grab food & go, the $20,000 in cash was soon exchanged for 1,600 vintage doorknobs, plates, rosettes, he could hardly hold back.
Darby packed the Chevy Silverado, new, fast, and man, had it done a great job on the leg up. Piles of door knobs in boxes, thousands of door plates, rosettes, and from a pairs collector, and old guy who passed away out of the Doorknob Collectors of America that Darby had become president of for a year, after years of getting to know the old guys with th…
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