I've tried to find some of this online myself, but since I don't speak German and the script is old fashioned (nearly 125 years old), I have had a hard time.
In case the context helps, these are from a church that was built by German Lutheran farmers in Texas in 1891.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa
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