Topic: Funny Thing Happened Yesterday, While I was Out In Fort Smith

[bill440cars]

                                                             
     There is a member over on the hondatwins.net who had mentioned interest in my 450 Honda stuff, if I were to get rid of it. Come to find out, he lives in Van Buren, which is just across the Arkansas River (not far away, only about 30-40minutes away). Anyway,I had driven the GTX up to my Dad's apartment, to take care of him, then headed out to go over to U.S.hwy71 to go back to Greenwood. As I was passing a red & black semi, all of a sudden he started going faster and was slowly passing ME up (to a point) and he blew his horn. Well, I always get lookers, when I take this car out and so I waved at him best I could (I couldn't actually see him because of the low roof of the car) and he pulled up enough that I DID see him give me a thumbs up and grinned! I acknowledged it and as I could, I gassed the GTX so he cold hear it and when I looked in the rear view mirror, I could see that he enjoyed hearing that engine. Then, some time later that evening, I went online and noticed that I had a message from the twins.net and found a PM that was titled "Was that you?" It seems that the fellow over in Van Buren, was the guy in the semi and thought it was ME in the GTX. Pretty cool I thought.

                                              Take care, Bill
                                             

[my78k]

Billy I haven't been around much lately (for a variety of reasons) but when did you get the GTX? Don't tell me you have had it forever and I am just losing my mind?

Dennis

[bill440cars]

Billy I haven't been around much lately (for a variety of reasons) but when did you get the GTX? Don't tell me you have had it forever and I am just losing my mind?

Dennis

           Hey Dennis, hope everything is okay with you. You aren't losing your mind (and I haven't been holding out either ) No, actually I got this car off of ebay about a month ago (not much good with time anymore).

           Let me set the basis concerning the car, before I get into how it came about. If you've heard this before, please bear with me. Back when I was running out of time on my Air Force enlistment, I bought a red 66' Dodge Charger withe the 383/4sp/posi. It was my DREAM car! It was sharp, in great shape and ran like a top! Then a bit later, I traded it off for a Petty blue 69' road runner with the wide black racing stripes on the hood. I was mad at myself after I traded and could not figure out why I did it. Well, I got out of the Air Force, went home to Little Rock and a month later I saw Brenda for the first time and she had a Gold w/a white painted top 69' road runner (my road runner was what caught her attention and caused her to notice me. Anyway, we got married that next Jan. After she passed away last July, I was wishing that I could get another 69' road runner, but every one I saw, was way too high priced for me to even consider and I didn't want a fixer upper ( at this stage of my life) Suddenly I saw this Gold 69' GTX (same car, only fancier) on ebay, It was the color that Brenda's road runner was painted, it had the wide black racing stripes like my 69' road runner, it had a 4sp like the Charger I traded for the road runner that would get Brenda's attention and I managed to snag this car off of ebay, not to mention that it was in Durant, Oklahoma (just a few hours away). So, I got it! This Baby will WALK & TALK!

       

       

       
   

[my78k]

WOW!! Gorgeous ride Bill!!

I didn't know the first part of the story but did know about the Road Runners and I never tire of hearing about it.

Things are ok for me just been tied up with a bunch of issues (work and family) and trying to get some work done on my basement. I pop in from time to time to quickly check on some of the threads (including spying on you to make sure you are doing ok without Brenda) but rarely have the chance to comment.

Trying to create more time to check on things around here...and with my basement starting to wrap up I hope it will be a bit easier.

Dennis

[bill440cars]

WOW!! Gorgeous ride Bill!!

I didn't know the first part of the story but did know about the Road Runners and I never tire of hearing about it.

Things are ok for me just been tied up with a bunch of issues (work and family) and trying to get some work done on my basement. I pop in from time to time to quickly check on some of the threads (including spying on you to make sure you are doing ok without Brenda) but rarely have the chance to comment.

Trying to create more time to check on things around here...and with my basement starting to wrap up I hope it will be a bit easier.

Dennis

           Dennis, I wasn't sure what I had told you, so I just made sure I covered it as best as I could. Things are going pretty well. I am STILL having my times off and on. I don't talk about on here as much any more because I figure I just need to try and take care of it myself. I'm sure that some would rather be talking bikes and all and LORD knows I've gotten lots of support from here and I don't want to drag that out so long that folks get tired of hearing it. This day, Christmas and Jan w/ the Wedding Anniversary will be the hardest I think. It's still hard to believe that she's not with me anymore (at least not in body, she'll ALWAYS be with me in Spirit and We'll one day) I'm glad to hear that things are getting to where you will be able to be around more, I miss your input and comments on things here.

           On the car, thank you for the comment. I am really happy to have it and to go outside and see it sitting on the driveway or to come up the road in the van and see it siting there, gives me a good feeling also.

           Gotta get around here, go take care of my Dad and then Karla and I are going somewhere for breakfast out. I try to spend some times with it just being the 2 of us (she has held up so well, with the loss of her Mother and she's kept an eye on ME as well! Karla has tried so hard to take her Mother's place, in many ways. But she also wishes that there was someone for ME, because she wants ME to be happy as well. She's already told me that she would have no problem if I end up with another woman because she knows exactly how I feel (and always will feel) about Brenda. She knows that another woman would not be a "replacement" but more like an "addition". I was really set back when she told me that.

                                            Best go, before I ramble on more, Bill