If any of you Brit Pelicans are free on Saturday, there is a dying kid who likes cars

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

11 year old kid with cancer, has about a month to live and really likes cars.
Help A British Subaru Owner Fulfill One Last Wish For His Dying Son

From that link, there is a link at the site I linked to that takes you to the thread to which he refers.

Quote:

I have arranged with FRED LAWTON LTD MELTHAM MILLS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, MELTHAM HUDDERSFIELD,HD9 4AY to be able to use there car park for the gathering which i would like to hold on saturday the 8th of september starting from 1 pm. everybody and every type of car is welcome so please please please come if you can make it and make my little boys day a special one thank you all in advance and please put your name down on your posts to this thread so i can get an idea of numbers.

This is that thread, 46 pages long in less than a week.
losing my son please help - ScoobyNet

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

So are any of you guys planning to attend?

onewhippedpuppy · 06:49 AM

I've been following that story on Jalopnik, the outpouring of support is amazing. 560 cars, wow. As a father it is hard to read with dry eyes, I can't imagine being in that situation.

KFC911 · 09-05-2012, 07:14 AM

Thanks for posting that! I don't have kids, and simply can't imagine the sorrow. I went to visit one of my favorite aunts yesterday who is in the final stages after a 20 something year battle with C in one form or another. That sux bad enough after a long, full, happy, life (and she was having a "good day" so it was a great joy to see her). For a child...it's simply heartwrenching to even thing about...wish I could attend.

craigster59 · craigster59's Garage

Just goes to show how great "car people are". What a turnout, and this pic really brings a tear to my eye...
Internet Pulls Together 1,200 Cars For Terminally Ill Boy

onewhippedpuppy · 09-10-2012, 11:20 AM

That's what makes the car hobby so great. If you can read that story with dry eyes, you're more of a man than I.

Laneco · 09-10-2012, 06:45 PM

YOU guys cried? sheesh...what do you think it did to me? Tears down both cheeks, a smile on my face, and a prayer in my heart.

angela

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

When I was in Texas, one of the OR nurses had a son with cancer, leukemia as I recall. A month or so before he died, they had a celebration of life deal, planted a tree, had a cake. Friend of mine, general surgeon, had a 911 convertible, one of the last air cooled ones. He taught that 14 year old kid how to drive a standard and they rode around the hospital.

Made me cry then, makes me cry now thinking about it.