Originally posted by Tony M:
I was wondering if you were the same BradB from the Camaro forum. I am just a lurker and dreamer there.[/QB]
Nope, This is my first forum, (so be gentle with me...)
I have owned, restored, rodded, or some combination thereof:
'62 Chevy II SW
'63 Rambler 660 SW
'67 Jeepster Commando
'69 Javelin
'76 AMC Matador SW (a Suburban in sheep's clothing
)
'88 Camaro RS
'89 Suburban R1500
And now the '47 panel... (Can you tell I'm a wagon guy?)
I tend to fix them up and then drive them for a long time. I know guys half my age that have had more cars than me.
When I got home with the '47 panel, my daughter, then 18, bubbling with enthusiasm, said, "Oh Dad, I just knew when you got old, you'd fix up an old truck and drive it forever."
Thanks, I think...
Actually it was a long dry spell in between the Jeep and Javelin and the Camaro. Due to a divorce I had to set aside everything but raising my kids. So the daughter probably remembers the "old stuff" more wistfully than it deserves. I sold the Jeep because when she was two, she would climb up the winch, run across the hood and scale the windshield onto the roof and then say, "Watch this Daddy! And a one, and a two!" as she swung her arms prior to leaping off the roof onto the grass. Then she would giggle like crazy and dash for the Jeep again while I tried to head her off at the pass. I was afraid she would get hurt so I sold the Jeep. By then I couldn't afford to go four wheeling anymore anyway.
So seven years later I married wife #2. She was wonderful until about a month after the wedding when she decided it was time to whip me into shape. It took nearly leaving her (five years later) to get her to face up to the fact that we had problems. We spent a couple years going to a really great Christian counselor. She has basically argued him to a standstill, but at least the counselor fought some of my toughest battles for me. I am a really patient type, but eventually I will take no more abuse. I don't get angry or violent like some people, I just become resolved. The first wife couldn't live with that, so she left. This wife (thank God) realized that she had some culpability in the problems and had a desire to stay married. (I'd like to think she loves me...
) She is really kind of hard headed about certain things, but I believe that we were put together because I am the only man on this earth that can love her, yet not be run by her.
My old pastor used to say, "The Lord works in mischevious ways..."
So there's a huge dump more than you asked for Tony.
I really hesitated before putting that last post in. I don't want to second guess someone else's relationship and then tell him to go home and take charge. I have no clue about their relationship beyond what he has said, but I can do one thing for JYF and Mrs. JYF. I will be praying about it.
