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> "BuZZard" buzzardnest.com> wrote in message
> news:Mgolj.5423$Yl.309@trnddc01...

>> /me plays taps.
>>
>> Old blue went to the resting place in the yard today.
>>
>> I tried.. i cried.. and i still hurt.. and i know that it
>> wont go away. I had to get advice from Jack H.
>> but.. as much as it hurt him to get rid of his old
>> buddy... and as much as it hurt me.. it was a goner.
>> :(......
>>

> Sounds a bit like my old "Blue bomber" as what we called my 1970 Buck
> Skylark, in-line 6 cylinder 3 on the tree; but the nipple broke off and I
> took the linkage and put 2 holes up through the floor and had 1st and
> second on one and 3rd and reverse on the other one. I could drive and
> change gears without moving my hands off the wheel, sort of like riding a
> bike; because I could move the rods with my foot.
> The blue bombers body was not much to look at; but when I had to sell
> it to the junk yard it still had only 73K original miles, not turned over
> but 73K original. when I got it in 1983, it had a tad over 30K and had
> been sitting on blocks out in our deacons garage; because it belonged to
> his son who had died in Vietnam and he could not bring himself to sell it,
> so he would sit out in the garage with the door open and start it up and
> run it through the gears and because of it being up on blocks those miles
> I would have to guess were very gently miles; because he would sit there
> and run the car and listen to the radio and think back (as he told me) to
> the trips he and his son took in it up to Canada to go fishing and a
> couple cross country road trips; before his son joined the army. He had
> helped his son buy the car brand new in 1970 when his son turned 16 and
> his son drove it and his day went with him on the trips until his son
> joined the Army in early 1972 and was sent to Nam in early 73, which by
> coiendence was about the same time I was coming back from Nam.
> I had that car all during my kids life time more or less; because I
> had it from the time our first child was born until we sold it to the junk
> yard for scrap in 1999, so we had it for a little over 16 years in which
> time we put 43K on it; because we used it as our primary vehicle for the
> first 10 years or so and the last 6 years it was our second car. Then
> just before we hocked the house we were running low on funds and I drove
> it out to the junk yard and the guy there being a friend and knowing about
> the car gave me $125 for it when usually a scrap car of its weight would
> only bring about $35-50 depending upon weight and whether or not you drove
> it in. He wanted the engine more then the car; because the in-line 250 is
> what is called "The original blow proof engine", and he wanted the engine
> to put in the yard truck. My youngest son cried when we sold it because
> he wanted me to keep it until he was old enough to get a license. Maybe
> that is why he now has a 68 Buick Skylark sitting out in the yard that has
> the engine out of his 1970 Buick Skylark which he bought when he was 18.
> About the only difference between his 70 and mine is that his was a
> automatic, and so is the 68; but his 68 came with a 2 speed power-glide
> automatic.
> N E Way, I said all that to say this: I can relate; because I know
> just about *exactly* where you are coming from bro!
>
>
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