Sold for roughly 100x more than purchase price. Not too shabby.

Caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet.

... my dad might be a multi-millionaire.

When my great-great grandfather and great grandfather bought their houses the house weren't all that special. San Francisco was a hard working class city like Chicago.

Both houses survived the great earthquake, and my great-great grandfather's house now looks better than it ever did, a "painted lady" in a very desirable neighborhood.

The house my grandma grew up in has been subdivided into apartments. I once talked to some of the people living there and they didn't quite believe one family had lived in the entire house. It's one of those houses that has two front doors. The door in the center was the formal entry leading to the good rooms. The door to the side was for everyone else; children, housekeepers, laundry men, etc.

My grandma remembered the laundry man fondly. When he came to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean he would give the children exotic sweets from Chinatown.

My grandma didn't consider herself racist but it was painful to visit Chinese and other ethnic restaurants with her. She expected to be treated like royalty. Her demeanor was completely ordinary at white people restaurants. Her sister, who lived more than a century, was the same way, but it wasn't so cringe-worthy when she was into her nineties and everyone was especially respectful of her simply because she was elderly.

When my grandma and her sister were young, wild, and free they considered San Francisco a boring place and they had zero interest in the family dairy business. Hollywood was the center of their universe.

Like them, I got into quite a bit of trouble in San Francisco and Hollywood when I was young and wild, never thinking about ROI in any aspect of my life.

The article doesn't say which one. The more valuable one would have been the 390 cu in my opinion. The second car was probably the one I believe was pretty much destroyed on those hills. I'm a Mustang guy. The movie script was stupid but I've watched the chase scene a thousand times. The clip would have been better if it started where Steve gets in the car. On another note, SF must have been filled with little green VW's back then !!!

I read somewhere that George Barris was the production's first "body man" but was fired after his first repair: