Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA

Faulkner · December 30, 2025, 6:00am

This is a posthumous recreation of a webpage first posted for Aivar in 2007, scanned from photographs he supplied to me - so it is obviously dated. Filly appears in many of these photos - then his “sweetheart” girlfriend, she is now his widow… Condolences, Filly.

In 2006, Aivar and his astonishing MoPar collection appeared on “My Classic Car” with Dennis Gage:

Season 10, Episode 18 of My Classic Car.
"In this episode of My Classic Car, Dennis Gage travels to the west coast to Duarte Mesa, California to see some finned Mopars that will knock your socks off."

Let’s start with Aivar’s photos of his spectacular '59 Sport Fury.

Filly at the wheel of Aivar’s gorgeous Sport Fury convertible

nothing less than a Golden Commando

I wonder if the Junior was ever refinished

[It was! Thanks to Aaron Kahlenberg for this update…]

"Aivar was a nice man with some beautiful cars. To answer the question on the webpage, yes, the Fury Junior was restored."

(Facebook banner photo)

Faulkner · February 25, 2024, 10:48pm

Aivar’s pride and joy - his 1960 Dodge Polara D500.

As he found it

undergoing restoration…

…and a '60 Dodge convertible!

Faulkner · February 25, 2024, 10:52pm

Other cars in his stable!

Faulkner · February 25, 2024, 11:01pm

These are some comments that were posted on Aivar’s initial webpage, no longer extant.

(Steve Storey, fellow 1959 Plymouth owner (Sport Fury convertible), has since passed on.)

Faulkner · February 25, 2024, 11:07pm

In November of 2009, Aivar sent me some pictures of his 1958 Regal Lancer from a car show he attended with Filly 0n 9/27/2009. I don’t know what the venue was, and I never posted these pictures. Perhaps they appear elsewhere, but here for the first time.