Denise may quite possibly have the most "famous" Hurst of all. I have seen it in three different Jeep books and was lucky to track Denise down. This Hurst is all original except for the antenna. She is only the second owner, and the first owners were none other than her parents! I find it amazing that this vehicle managed to stay in the same family it's entire life. It was obviously well cared for and is quite possibly the cleanest un-restored Hurst I have seen so far.
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Denise's Hurst Story
My parents always traveled. First by car and hotel, then they branched out to a camper, a1968 Avion camper to be exact with a '68 GMC pickup. This was sold without my knowledge when they were both coming down with Alzheimer's but thank God the Jeep was not. I grabbed that before something like that could have happened. Now on to the story... So, they camped for a couple of years and when four wheeling was popular they got the idea of getting a four wheel drive vehicle so that they could go off road in the Anza-Borrego Desert in California. They looked at vehicles and I was often along. The Scout steering wheel turned out to be too high four my mother and she couldn't see over it. They then went to Tipton Oldsmobile to look at this Jeep in the showroom. After a test drive up a side of a hill that made my father quite nervous, my parents bought it for the grand sum of $5k. I learned to drive on it. At one point when my mother was recovering from an operation, I took it to college. My friends from both high school and college still remember the Jeep and can't believe that I still have it. As I said before, my mother in her illness could have sold it, but I told her that there was a problem with it so she didn't do it. We paid some bills for her and I had it shipped back here. I have rebuilt the carburetor, new tires, and fixed the rips in the seats from the dogs, cleaned it with "Bon Ami" to get 20 years worth of dirt out of it but it is shining now. It's all original except for the tires and antenna.
How did I get in Pat Foster's books? I saw an article in the back of Auto Week and I wrote him in care of the magazine as the article was on Jeeps of the same vintage. I asked him if he knew anything about this jeep and sent a picture to him. He obviously received the letter because he called me and drove from Connecticut to see it. Then he did another article on it and I did the pictures. Then when he did the subsequent books, he used the pictures that I sent to him.
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