The White Queen
“The White Queen” is how Jim refers to my classic roadster; a 1986 Mercedes Benz 560SL white convertible. It was one of my personal goals to acquire an SL convertible as my 50th birthday present to myself. I had seen a butter yellow one with a tan ragtop in a movie back in the late 1970′s and made up my mind that I would own one someday. While I didn’t find the car of my dreams for my 50th birthday, a very strange thing happened a few months after my 55th birthday. I was at my local auto body shop having my ten-year old Saab hatchback repaired following a minor fender bender, when I mentioned to Wayne, the owner, that I would soon be leaving NJ and moving to Tucson, AZ. I explained that once I was settled in Tucson, my plan was to sell my black Saab and replace it with my dream car; a butter yellow classic Mercedes Benz SL. While I loved my Saab, it and I had not been a match made in Heaven. On th...