Car guys

[Shaun @ Tru6]

A snippet from one of customers who is in his 70s, from our good neighbor to the north, from a long ongoing conversation. I could post so much more but this really hits it for me.


I used to hit every car dealership in town every day in summer and after school. I rode my bike over every street in town and knew where every neat car was. Old cars in back yards that could be made into hot rods.

I knew all the older guys who worked on hot rods and when I would one say he was looking for a certain car I would chime in and say that I knew there was one. Man I was in demand!! Got lots of rides in cool cars.

[OK-944]

Reminds me how lucky I was a few years back...when I came upon an older gent who happened to be a car collector - out in his driveway waxing his Ferrari 512 TR...a "special edition" (1 of 25) model...the last year before the "M," so still had the popup headlights. And talk about "showroom condition!"

So we got to talking - and after a short while he invited me into his collection barn...where there sat a number of Porsches (early edition turbos, etc.), plus an early Dodge Viper, and a few other Ferraris (308's, 348's). Everything kept in immaculate condition.

A bit later, as we walked back out to his 512...he suddenly said - "get in...lets go for a ride!" The guy had raced a bit in prior years - and obviously know how to drive. Had a blast - and I grew to really like the car so much that if I had truly deep (deep!) pockets, I'd spring for one in a heartbeat.

At any rate...I returned to his neighborhood a few years later, and found out that he'd passed away very shortly after my previous visit.