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Coburn Benson 1935-2019

7/30/2019

 
We are deeply saddened to pass along the report of the passing of Coburn Benson (1935-2019) of Limerick, Maine. Coburn was a very knowledgeable fellow on vintage motor vehicles and steam cars in particular. 
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Edwin Einar Larsen
10/7/2019 01:13:23 pm

Our family visited Colburn Benson and his family on their farm in Concord.Massachusetts. My grandfather Carl Larsen.became friends with Mr. Benson on the voyage from Norway. We picked strawberries and asparagus and had coffee and donuts in their kitchen. I would drop by in Concord throughout the years to visit Colburn who was an extremely interesting person. I will miss him.
Edwin Einar Larsen age 82.
40 Aqueduct Rd.
Wayland. Mass. 01778
Our family lived at
113 Gray Street. Arlington. Mass. When I was younger.

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John Taylor
3/28/2020 06:00:30 pm

Mr Coburn Benson was my friend through being, a pen pal, he always spoke highly of his home and farm in Concord Massachusetts, residence.

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John Youmans
10/3/2021 02:36:26 am

Hello, I was trying to find out what happened to one of my Bugatti cars, a blue Type 37 two-seater which Coburn Benson took over from me in 1960, and I ran across your article. Coburn was a very capable mechanic who owned a 1916 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost which he timed by ear and he repaired my vintage Bugattis during a two-year period from 1958-1960. I knew him well, sorry to hear that he passed a few years ago.

Otherwise, I see that your family is Norwegian, I have lived in Oslo since 1964! Kanskje du husker norsken din ennå?

Beste hilsener,

John Youmans
Tel. +47 91840110

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John Cressy
10/8/2019 01:23:57 pm

I would hang out at the bike shop in Haverhill, MA during 1967-69. Always stopping in when home on leave from the Air Force. I called Ben back in 2001 and left a message on his phone in Concord. He told me he had sold his home and was moving to ME. He had just stopped by to get some last things out of the house and have the phone disconnected. I had intended to stop and see him in Limerick on the 5th of October without knowing where he lived or that he had passed in July. He was the most knowledgeable guys I knew. RIP

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PAUL TAGLIERI link
10/6/2021 12:26:23 pm

BEN FIXED MY TRIUMPH,TR6,AT HIS HAVERHILL SHOP,I LATER BUMPED INTO HIM AT A RESTAURANT IN ACTON ABOUT1995 OR 1996,HE HAD THE BIG MUSTAUCH,BUT LOOKED THE SAME AS HE DID IN THE 60'S,ALWAYS CALM,COOL,AND A WICKED INTELLIGENT MAN ON SO MANY LEVELS,EVERYONE WHO EVER KNEW YOU,WILL MISS YOU BEN,THE WORLD LOST GREATNESS.TAG

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