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> "Sugien" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:47962fe8$0$2142$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

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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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> From the Desk of Sugien CSK
>> /}
>> @###{ ]::::::Cyber Striker Knight::::::>
>> \}

>
> Thanks.. I bought that truck brand new in 1985.. it had 8 original miles
> on her..
> i put all other 213,973.8 miles on her.
> She left with 213,981.8 miles.
> I forgot to take the amp out of it.. didnt need it anyway..
> way to big. i took the ol cb out of her.. and gave it to vinny along with
> the antenna.
> had it tweaked out while in ohio one year.
> i spent my entire years of my twentys.. thirties.. and when i turned
> fourty.. she took a dump on me.. and it took me 9 months to fix.. and
> ended up still fucked up after all that.
> I just had enough.. but it was in perfect shape.body wise.
> needed new rims and rubber.. over the years.. I have put about.. 18
> different stereos in it.. five sets of rims and prolly ten sets of
> tires... two paint jobs.. five grills.. and one quarter panel. damn.. I
> miss her.
> I tripped on acid.. have smoked weed with some chick at kentucky fried
> chicken.. from the drive in window.
> with countrystuff and her hubby.
> well.. out with the old.. in with the.. sorta old.lol
>