tb4me Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 dads car... A man and his car reunited, with the help of his 2 sons and their famlies...Simply awesome! http://www.wimp.com/dadscar/
lhousesoccer Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Wow. That took some dedication. And some coin ....
lew Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) I had a '65 Parisienne convertible that I sold in '73 & I would sure love to get back, infact I've been kicking myself for decades for ever getting rid of it. I know how old Dad in the video feels about getting rid of that beauty !! Mine was identical to this one except I had white seats. They sure don't make em like that anymore Edited November 18, 2011 by lew
I'mHooked Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Thanks alot!...Now my eyes are itchy...must have got some dust in them.
mike rousseau Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 I had a neighbor that sold a boat... Always regretted it... Found it 10 years later halfway across Ontario... Bought it back.... Now every time he drives that thing hes got a smile from ear to ear...
Miracon Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Note to self...keep a box of tissues handy when checking into this forum! That was awesome! Thanks for sharing! Rob sold his Baby (1971 RoadRunner) a few years back and regrets it now. He was tight on finances and it was too expensive to drive with the price of gas. Every spring though, he wishes he'd have just kept it and stored it for a while. My goal is to one day buy it back for him and put a big bow on it! Mostly, I miss doing burnouts on it myself!
misfish Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 I still have the odd dreams, of my 69 corrent.I wake up wishing I still had it aswell. You see the odd one around,but the asking price is out of my reach.
mercman Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Most awesome vid i have seen.Funny though, my eyes are all itchy too now Excellent
wallyboss Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 I found my Dad's first snowmobile a 1966 Bombardier this August, I talke dwith the son of the man that owned it for about 40 years and he told me that his Dad had restored it 12 years ago. And he had sold it 3 years ago to a childhood friend. I got into contact with that friend and after a few converstions he decided that he would sell it to me. He had told me that one his buddy that owns the Antique Snowmobile Museum in Cochrane, Ontario wanted to do something with it. But my friend told that he is very Computer illetarate. Another one of my friends from the same town told me that he had seen him drive that snowmobile almost every weekend at the lake and that the sled was in very good shape. And becasue of this I never asked the owner to send me some pictures. So about 3 weeks ago I drove 800 km to go pick up my new(to me)snowmobile. Got there and started shooting the S**T with my buddy. He started showing me around his place and every time we entered one of his garages I would look around to see if I could finally spot my Dad's sled. Finally I spot a nice old sled and I start walking towards it, he shows it to me and all I could think is that " this isn't my dad's sled " But then he tells me that this is his 1968 Bombardier and that hes has been driving it every weekend at the lake for about 3-4 years(see story above) Then he says "let's go see your sled" So we get behind one of his garages and all of a sudden he stops and grabs the end of a tarp. He starts pulling it up and I almost puked because of the sad shape that the sled was in. I quickly figured out that the previous owners son's idea of a restored sled was quite a bit different from my idea of a restored one. I am not too mechanically inclined(I am more electronically inclined but not much of that on this sled) plus I do not have any of metal working machines ( welders, ect..) And i do not even have a garage at the moment. This job was way over my head but reluctantly I put it in the back of my pickup telling myself that I will figure something out. That night after really thinking about it I called the guy back and see if he wanted back and he said yes. So I actually owned the same sled as my Dad for about 12 hours. Moral of this long story is "Be careful of what you want, cause it might break your heart"
esoxansteel Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Im still looking for RS23UOG217181 a 1970 Deep Burnt Orange Mettalic Plymouth GTX factory 440 super commando factory 4-speed 833A transmission Hurst pistol grip shifter and factory air-grabber hood, with a trac-pack Dana 60 with 354 gears, sold it to buy a boat, boats paid now i want him back his name is Snortin Norton, there might still be a piece of hard sponge on the lower part of the dash, by the shifter, cause you used to ram your knuckles every time you jammed her into3rd gear, sold in 1993 to a lad in Oshawa, i tried to do a VIN locate, but a police told me that he could loose his job for doing that, privacy laws
esoxansteel Posted November 18, 2011 Report Posted November 18, 2011 Also lookin for another ex she had a pretty good rear-end in her day had some milage on her when i had her, but theirs probably a hell of a lot more milage on her now man did she used to purr, but towards the end she started to growl she had a decent set of head lights as well, but one day she went to the body shop and they can back much larger and prettier then before she she went in to the shop If you see her say hi, she told me its either the fishin, or its me, i said good-by
camillj Posted November 19, 2011 Report Posted November 19, 2011 Ahhhh yes ... my ol '69 Z28 ... quart of oil on every fillup and traction bars so low you had to hand wash her ... but then ... thats part of the nostalgia...I guess there's something about your 'first' that just doesn't ever leave ya....
Guest chase4chrome Posted November 19, 2011 Report Posted November 19, 2011 The car is great...would rather still have my dad around.................. He was also a hell of an angler
Guest chase4chrome Posted November 19, 2011 Report Posted November 19, 2011 Note to self...keep a box of tissues handy when checking into this forum! That was awesome! Thanks for sharing! Rob sold his Baby (1971 RoadRunner) a few years back and regrets it now. He was tight on finances and it was too expensive to drive with the price of gas. Every spring though, he wishes he'd have just kept it and stored it for a while. My goal is to one day buy it back for him and put a big bow on it! Mostly, I miss doing burnouts on it myself! Bob, Bob, Bob--gotta hurt brother!!
Roe Bag Posted November 19, 2011 Report Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) An amazing heart warming tear jerking story. We should all be blessed with a son like you. Kudos. Edited November 19, 2011 by Roe Bag
Dozer Posted November 20, 2011 Report Posted November 20, 2011 For a second there I thaught the old man was going into cardiac arrest once he saw the car. Very cool story, great video, thanks for sharing
bubbles Posted November 20, 2011 Report Posted November 20, 2011 I often wonder if I will be saying "remember my 2008 impala" that was a great car, wish I still had her.
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