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