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sonofbeach-sheet — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 10:33 PM)

For his birthday, Daniel chooses the 1946-1947 Ford Convertible over the 1952-1953 Cadillac Seville Sedan or that little Nash Metropolitan. I'm not sure what the station wagon was; maybe a 1951-1952 Chevrolet. The Ford was nice, but good Lord, he could have had a Cadillac and been pimpin! Perhaps he didn't even know what the make or model of the cars were.
Ali's parents drove a Rolls Royce, a college age guy hitting on Ali at the arcade parking lot has a brand new 1984 Corvette, and Johnny is driving an Avanti convertible. And Daniel's mother has a 1968-1969 Chevelle wagon 3-speed manual with probably a 6 cylinder or 307 engine at best. Yet today even that would be a nice vintage car given the proper restoration, but in that affluent Encino neighborhood in the Reagan 80's, it was a source of embarrassment.
I wonder where Miyagi got the money for those cars. Perhaps the VA gave him a huge sum of money for his service, since he won the Medal of Honor and assuming he was wounded in the process and he just did the apartment maintenance job for spare change. Or why did a single man with no wife or kids since the war buy all those cars 30-40 years ago, but kept his otherwise simple lifestyle afterwards.

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The Ford was nice, but good Lord, he could have had a Cadillac and been pimpin!
Agree. I don't think there was one good looking domestic car made in the 40s. The Ford was not only ugly but the faded mustard yellow was putrid. The only good thing about it was the V8.
I wonder where Miyagi got the money for those cars.
I don't think any one of them was worth more than few hundred if he bought them in the 60s or 70s in rough shape and "restored" them. Being west coast cars they would have only needed basic mechanical work, seat covers and a quick paint job to be driveable. Where I am we need to strip them down to the frame to get the rust and rot addressed first.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.

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VA doesn't do sh#t for their veterans.

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Yes, pretty sure he bought them old and rusted out and part of his craft was to refurbish them. As for the car he chose, hey, it's Cali and it was a ragtop!

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I wondered if the dog tags on the keys were indicative of something- like they belonged to old war buddies? I was hoping to come on to imdb to see if there was something written about it. Otherwise, I would think- yes. He lives a modest lifestyle and has either kept the cars for years or (since he enjoys fixing things) bought them as junkers and fixed them up.

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