Dodge nut: Murray Coster admits to being one-eyed about the Dodge since he first saw one 73 years ago. His latest car is this big, comfortable 1937 model.
GREG WANE
MANIFOLD Height’s Murray Coster describes himself as a “Dodge nut from way back”.
Murray said he fell in love with the Dodge in 1938 when his uncle, a commercial traveller for an engineering firm, visited the family regularly in Swan Hill.
“On this particular occasion he arrived in the latest Dodge Sloper. The sloper was a streamlined, two-door thing with a little boot on the back.
“I would have been seven-years-old and that was the start of my love affair with Dodges and I have refused to look at anything else since,” he laughed.
Murray has owned several Dodges but admits to once owning a 1937 black Ford 10.
“We had that for a couple of years but I wanted something a bit bigger and a bit more comfortable so I sold the Ford when I found the 1937 Dodge,” Murray said.
He found the Dodge, 22 years ago, fully restored by a car enthusiast in Corowa and later sold in Bendigo.
“I have since completely redone the inside: the upholstery, trims, head lining, doors, seats and instrument panel,” Murray explained.
“The bloke that restored the car did not have any taste for colours and the interior was terrible.
“It had black headlining and dark brown seats, it looked absolutely shocking.
