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Lifelong passions for sale Mail Tribune/Jim Craven photo Ken Mann is selling Jack Lynch�s classic 1940 Woodie wagon. Asking price? $40,000. Lynch�s pristine �65 Mustang is also available for the right price at Mann�s Performance Automotive on South Pacific Highway. Lynch�s failing health no longer permits him to hang onto the cars he�s owned for decades. Owner can no longer enjoy prized cars, and is selling By Mark Freeman Jack Lynch can no longer enjoy his passions, so he�s putting them up for sale. A 1940 Woodie wagon and a 1965 Ford Mustang are two of the Medford man�s most-prized possessions, vehicles he bought new and kept looking that way at his East Medford home. The cars never missed a routine service, and never spent a night outside. "Fifty years of taking care of them, it got to become a habit," said Lynch, 82. But Lynch�s old habit has died hard. At 82, he can�t enjoy the cars any more, so he�s selling them at a south Medford specialty car lot. "It was a hobby," Lynch said. "I think now I�m out of hobbies. I�m hobbling." Someone with the right amount of cash will become the benefactor of Lynch�s passions, said Ken Mann. Mann�s Performance Automotive at 3629 S. Pacific Highway is selling Lynch�s cars. The Ford Super Deluxe wagon, which sold new in 1940 for $1,100, is the wood-paneled wagon that became the shuttle machine of California surfers. There are less than 10,000 on the road in America now, according to Woodie wagon associations. Lynch�s Woodie, with a $40,000 price tag, has all original parts, other than items like spark plugs that are changed as part of regular maintenance. Its Cadillac white paint job dates to the 1960s. "It�s a museum piece," Mann said. Equally unusual is the Mustang, the Lee Iacocca invention that became the sports car of the 1960s generation. Lynch bought his Mustang from Crater Lake Ford for his wife in 1965. It sports the original paint that Ford called "Honey Gold," but looks more like pea-green, Mann said. The car is unique because it is completely original, right down to the factory-installed fan belts, Mann said. With just 43,000 miles, its immaculate shape is a testimony to Lynch�s long hours of car-coddling. The Mustang has drawn quite a bit of interest in the week it has been offered for sale, Mann said. "I�ve sold a lot of Mustangs, and this is one of the Top 2 or 3 I�ve ever had for sale," Mann said. "With a lot of Mustangs, I can�t tell you how many owners there were, or how many paint jobs they�ve had. "This one," he said, "hasn�t gone through the wringer." Unfortunately, Lynch said, the same can�t be said for himself, so the cars he has cared for over the decades now should go elsewhere. "I�m blind," Lynch said. "I can�t see anything. I can�t drive anymore. I got tired of keeping them up and paying the insurance. So I decided to sell." Obituaries | Sports | Business | Classifieds | Tempo | Prime Times | So Oregon Sites | Outdoor Journal | Subscribe | Contact | Movies | Advertise | Real Estate Showcase | Archive | Editorials | Letters to the editor | Religion | Wake-up Call | NIE | Cyber Chef | Job Network | So Oregon Weather | WSJ Northwest | Forums | AP Wire | AP Money | F.A.Q. | Awards Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. The Community Newspaper Subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co, Inc Copyright �The Mail Tribune 2000, Medford, Oregon USA