Cool story for my son Harrison, he is a big car guy we watch Top Gear and talk about cars all the time, his dream car is the SLR Mercedes, he recently told me that he had finally decided that he would take the SLR over the Aston Martin DB9, it was a tough struggle for him but that was the one he wanted.
Our family took a week vacation in Cambria this summer and spent one day in and around Big Sur, we all stop and eat lunch, as we are walking back to the car Harrison spots an SLR in the parking lot, he freaks, can't believe it and procedes to drool all over the car.
He runs into the small boutique my wife is shopping at to tell her, the comes out and tells me he KNOWS the guy that owns the car is in the shop and I have to let him show me. I go in, he points him out, and I tell him there are over a hundred cars out there there is no way to tell for sure, he assures me THAT is the guy.
We go back over and clean some drool from the car, he is telling me on the specs on it, when his guy come out of the store and starts walking in the direction of the car, he freaks again, bets me $10 that it is him, we watch and sure as **** the guys pops the trunk on the SLR! I can not let Harrison miss this chance to see inside etc. so I walk up, tell him that is my sons dream car, he looks at Harrison and says, " Well Harrison bring those size 13 shoes over here and sit inside."
He opens it up, lets him get in feel around, he shows him how everything works, the car wont start until the guy gives it his thumb print!!! Harrison is speechless, this guys was so cool to him and us, he really made my sons day that day and it gave him something to rub in his older brothers face when we got home.
