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> "BuZZard" buzzardnest.com> wrote in message
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>> "Sugien" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> "BuZZard" buzzardnest.com> wrote in message
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>>>> /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
>>

>
> I have one friend that had his car for a tad over 30 years and when it
> gave up the ghost, he took the drivers door off of it and put it in his
> living room and has people that visit and that had ridden in it either as
> a child that is now grown up or as an adult sign the door. He has it
> sitting beside his recliner and has an old driven in tray hooked onto the
> rolled down window (the kind that they use to hang on your car door at
> those drive in restraunts) and uses it as an end table to sit stuff on
> next to his chair.
>
>
> --
> From the Desk of Sugien CSK
> /}
> @###{ ]::::::Cyber Striker Knight::::::>
> \}
>
>