The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk My wife said it was her or the truck!!!

I'm sure gonna miss her!



That rusty old truck, I mean....



My son's selling his '62.



Oh well. I sure want to thank so many of you for helping us get "Rusty" up and running. We learned a lot and met some great people too!



God bless and good night,

Bruce

Where in tarnation do ya think yer agoin' JYF???? You can always get another "old Lady" but ya can't always get another "Great Old Truck". Sounds like ya need to have a man to man talk with that boy of yourn'.

hey!! glad to read yer back in usual fettle Oly - stay as far as ya can from those doctors
oh yah, how's the trucks?

Bill

This is just the beginning. :mad: :confused:

JYF: Just because I retired from the fire dept. doesn't mean I do not stop in every once in awhile! The young bucks are always happy to see me and usually "ol pops" has to tell a story or 2. .

So just because you sold "rusty" doesn't mean you can't stop by and help one of us with a question. Ben

popcorn The Truth is Out There (Besides you are a Cubs fan and I need all the help against Mr. Houston next year I can get)

What!? Women are a dime a dozen!

Here is my 3rd wife. She's 26, I'm 51.

If she were to complain about the truck, she would be history! In fact, she wants me to get started on it.

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JYF.. don't fall for it.. call her trump!!!!

My Wife did the same thing to me with my 66 GMC that my father bought new (i posted a pix of it and me the day we picked it up at the dealer in the old lounge).

I still regret selling that truck... of course, I've moved on to The Ox and The Coupe with a truck block (TCWATB).

I got my Camaro restoration done just in time for the wedding. Two weeks later she was on my case to sell it. I finally gave in for the sake of peace in the family. I practically gave it away and have regretted it ever since. Six years later I bought the '47 panel. She had some REALLY NASTY things to say. I mean, like PMS on steroids! I told her I was no longer going to allow her to get away with emotional terrorism. I called her a bully. (She had a pretty well established pattern by then.)

We were already in counseling at the time, and this gave us plenty to talk about. A year later, the truck is still here and she is much nicer to live with. Counseling ain't cheap, but it's worth it.

If you are spending all your time on the truck and ignoring her, she may have a leg to stand on, but if she's just trying to rule the roost, she is out of line.

Mine is nagging me to get out there and get started on the truck.....go figure.

The first wife complained I spent too much time in the shop, or in the yard, on on the front porch...or whatever....Spent 24 years trying to please her.

This one is so easy going. We have never had an angry moment in 3 years. She has plenty of hobby stuff herself to do.

I was wondering if you were the same BradB from the Camaro forum. I am just a lurker and dreamer there.

Yodaddy, I think your story belongs on the post with the tall tale car stories!!! How did you get someone that pretty!

I'm pretty, too!

I got lucky, I guess. She's a great gal. Still learning to cook, tho. My truck tags read "Yodaddy"...her idea....And her tags read "Cuff Me"....I swear.

We just came in from trying to crank the old GMC. She helped me install the new starter and fetched tools n stuff, then did the honors with the key and gas pedal when we tested it.

She was disappointed when it wouldn't fire. She wants to drive it!

So to make it up to her, I gotta take her to dinner tonight....Then I have to work the midnight shift afterwards.

She is gonna kill me!

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.

And by the way, my daughter looks just as fine as YoDaddy's Mrs, but a lot older...

Yodaddy makes me feel a lot better about my wife being 13 years younger than me. I was a cradle robber at the time. Or at least that is what they called me. :rolleyes:

the purchase of 54 in 1983 almost caused my divorce. the 14 years later she did walk out for another man. but my settlement made it possible to really put some time and money into the truck with out any complaints. btw the personalize plates on the PT read setlmnt. i was able for the first time buy a new car and pay cash. she had inherited money from her father and courts awarded it all to me plus a nice monthly check for 10 years plus 8% interest. one of my favorite country songs goes, i am going to miss her but i got a bite. i don't fish but alot of good things have happened since. i am 61 no woman in site but you give me hope. ron ps that is the second thing iam saving up for but the truck comes first.

You guys with trophy wives ... good on ya! (as long as it ain't my daughter, of course...) I'm surprised we haven't seen The Proffit in this one yet

Me, on the otherhand, well like Tony P, I am a

Trophy Husband!

Eat your hearts out, Girls, I'm taken!

John

My dad was 13 years older than my mom....S I guess it comes natural for me.

My 2nd wife was 16 years younger than me. That lasted 8 months. I got wild after first marriage of 24 years. Bought me a red Trans Am, learned to 2-step and hit the bars every night. I met her one night and took her home. She got naked in the car and tossed her clothes out the open T-tops...was standing up flashing truckers all the way to my house. I thought that was cool, so I married her. I sobered up, but she refused....So I divorced her.

She was still coming to visit when I started dating present wife, Ginny. Ginny was 22 then...One day-my birthday-they fought over me out in the driveway. That was great having two young women fight over me....But made me feel like a horse's rear afterwards.

So Ginny moves in...and out...and back in...I finally asked her why she moved out the second time...She said it had been 2 years and I hadn't asked her to marry me...So I tell her pack her stuff and move back cause we was getting married.

She still can't cook too good, but she's working on it. Her mom is my age. I told Ginny if we ever get divorced, I'll marry her mom and be both her step dad and ex-husband!

P.S. Ginny went to school with my Son and his wife, but was 2 years behind them due to her age.

Here is my whole clan:

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Now here's a Stovebolt wife for ya:

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Meet Jason and Christy Sternhagen

Peg

I gotta agree...She's pretty....A keeper.

Well, I guess a guy can always find another old truck, huh?

Second wife....she had the front tag made with our names on it, red-neck style....she took it when I divorced her...go figure.

She also had her own web page on southerncharms....That was fun!

I don't miss her.

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LOL

Glad to see you're back in form Oly!!!



P.S. I just made up that story about my wife. She didn't say anything. OTOH, she will be happy when it's gone. Of course I pointed out that having the truck gone means we are that much closer to having a MOTORCYCLE parked in the garage!

I'm glad I don't have to deal with this with the current g/f. The last 2 were constantly nagging me and saying that I loved my Olds more than them (this was pre-truck). Since they're gone and the Olds is here, I think they were right

Now, this g/f loves the olds (and it's pillowtop seats...) and wants an AD truck, after seeing them online! hahahahaha

Hey Yodaddy, I'll give you one guess what my 19 year old daughter's name is.

And JYF, that's cruel. You oughta give a guy a clue when you're messin' with him... :confused:

Wife number one turned out to be a real b***h unless she was drinking, then she loved "everybody". Didn't like that kind of influence for my daughter so I traded her in on the perfect wife. Not only does she approve of my truck collecting, she points them out for me. She will dig in and help me load them, wander for hours at swap meets with me and spend week-ends at carshows too. She's a beautiful 5'7", 125 lbs. with a smile that melts butter. You just can't be angry when she's around. Like me, she loves to eat, unlike me , she don't look like she loves to eat. She's modest, thoughtful, a very good cook, and thinks of the family first. I wish I could have met her before all of the other problems I got myself into. Life would have been a whole lot easier, but life is NOW good. I feel sorry for all who have to suffer a poor relationship. Life is too short to be miserable.
Scott