1964 Dodge 330
My favorite car, so I started this lens devoted to them.
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...this section is being edited and shall return shortly... The GoldenEagle: The Autobiography of a car...
The Car That Inspired a series of books.
Shot at 2007-04-04
- Hello! I am a 1964 Dodge 330 4-door sedan, VIN 4142216364, my name is The Goldeneagle. This site was created by my owner Wendy C. Allen of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, to save my life.
I am the main character of the original Twighlight Manor book, and a major supporting character of more that 30 other books and short stories by Maine author Wendy C. Allen.
I started out in life as a silver undercover Police car in Maine. In 1975 I retired from my job as a police car and was sent to Marcot Motors of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where I was painted gold by some fool with a paint brush. He totally ruined my lovely silver paint job and left me streaked with brush lines. I was only there a few months before I was bought by the Allen family, who sanded me down and painted a lovely shade of metalic orange.
I remained the faithful family chauffer for the next ten years. Together we drove on many roadtrips throughout the NorthEast. In 1978, I took them to New York where we croosed the Brooklen Bridge during it's major repair construction. That same year we went to Washington D.C. I took the Allen family to Arcadia in Bar Harbor to see The Thunder Hole in 1981. Every year I drove them to New Hampshire where we visited The Old Man on the Mountain and Story Land and The Swift River. Three times I climbed Mt. Washington.
I've brought home puppies and baby chickens. I waited in hospital parking lots and veterinary clinics. I remained forever and always a faithful friend. The only friend who was always there, steadfast and unmoveble, silent and unjudgmental. My red plush seats always there like a shoulder to cry on when no one else would lend and ear or a shoulder. I alone remained to one true friend, the only friend to the child who loved me and defend me when no one else would put up with my break downs and failrues.
Over the years I grew old and tired, my engine weak and my transmission failing. My last trip was a desperate trip to the hospital, one dark and stormy night in 1985 when a hurrican flooded the town, sending the Atlantic Ocean over the Peir and up Maine Street. My last trip came when abulances could ride faster than my Mopar engine and Mrs Allen had to be rushed to the hostpital at 3AM. We speed through Old Orchard fatser than ever before, through hurrican floods that went higher than my door panels seeping water into my interior and flooding my floors, filling my transmission and engine with icy salt water, we made it to the hospital with Mrs. Allen, but I did not make it back home on my own and was towed home by a friend's little VW Rabbit.
In spite of my loyalty, with a dead trasmission and an engine full of salt, I was usless, and parked in the yard, put up for sale for junk.
I was rescued from a trip to the junk yard in 1985 by 9 year old, Wendy C. Allen, after my trans died. Since 1985 I have remained a decoration on the hill in her rose garden, where she sits in my seats or on my hood to write the stories in which I appear. Without me, she can not write these stories for I am the one that inspires them. I have been happy in my life of peace and rest here in Old Orchard Beach these past 30 years. That has now changed.
New town ordinances and zoning laws have been set in Old Orchard Beach. As a result the police, the code enforments officers, and the town manager are now in attempt to see my death and destruction, with threats of stealing me from my rightful owner and sending me to become scrap metal in the junk yard.
This is an outrage! They well not listen to reason.
My profile now comes to you to spread the word and ask for your help in saveing my life. An entire network of websites devoted to my plight are now in the works and links to them well be added here within the next few hours.
Please join the protest and put an end to the Old Orchard Beach reign of terror. Old Orchard Beach is a town not a dynasty, they have no right to take me from my home and kill me!
PLEASE DON'T LET THEM KILL ME!!!!!
To read more, please visit my profile: http://www.myspace.com/savethegoldeneagle
Shot at 2007-04-04
What Wikipedia has to say about Dodge
Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and, until 2009, pickup trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide.
Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company in 1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroit's growing auto industry, Dodge began making its own complete vehicles in 1914. The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998?2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC which has an alliance with Fiat. Fiat has plans to eliminate some Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep existing vehicles in favor of Fiat-Chrysler co-developed vehicles.
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- Shar Shar May 1, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
- Hi, I enjoyed your lens... Hope you will stop in at my lens ""I am a Dodge" A Candid Interview With Frances Mealbach"
I love Dodge's too....
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- Brian Brian Jun 16, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
- That was a great story and I hope the Golden Eagle will ride again!
My Grandmother had a 64 Dodge 330. It was bought in late 1964 it had a 361 V-8. I grew up thinking that car was so cool. I love it. Not the very much on options just automatic transmission and pwr Steering. Reading your story took me down memory lane. With all the trips to the doctors and around town we'd go in it. She drove it down from Northern CA. every month or two. Never saw it again after 1978 it did not make down and she bought another car but kept the Dodge. This had renewed my interest in what ever happened to the car. My Grandmother died in 1984 when I was away working and going to college in New England. I had a chance to buy a couple but never did. Now I kind I wish I had. Long live the Classic Mopars!!
Brian from San Diego CA
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- petergrizzly petergrizzly May 26, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
- Hahaha! I love that Golden Eagle bit. Maybe I can offer a safehouse for the Goldeneagle? :)
5 Stars!
-Peter G
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- Tiddledeewinks Tiddledeewinks Feb 2, 2008 @ 12:10 am
- I remember driving that car!
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