GOODBYE OLD FRIEND!

It is 6:10 a.m. and 62.1 degrees out, a relief from the heat wave. Patrick got up and joined Junior and somebody downstairs.

OK, so I bought this '70 El Camino sometime in the 80's and it was my daily driver for about five years. It was a great Gentlemen's Truck. I threw a rod in the existing 400 small block taking Junior to school one winter morning. We replaced it with a junkyard 307.

It's been hanging around ever since the neutral safety switch went out, and I parked it, and it was replaced, I think by my '84 S-15... I purchased it for $275.00 from a kid who worked at Pizza King. He couldn't get it to keep a battery charged. Replaced voltage regulator, alternator, batteries. etc. Turned out the wiring harness had some wires reversed, which was a tricky diagnosis by a friend.

So, over the years, people stop by and want to buy it. Only yesterday, I decided OK, let's let her go. One less of the dozen or so vehicles cluttering up the place. Each winter we find another, hidden by weeds, we had forgotten about....

So, I sold her for 350 bucks, a profit of $75.00--that'll go toward our Kayaks... And the happy new owner, a Bippus Volunteer Fireman, will use some of her trim parts for his '69 Camino project car, then part her out. So she will live on, at least part of her.

I'd scan in some pics of her in her better days, but for some reason the CPU and the scanner are having a spat right now and are not talking.

So it goes.

GO GATORS!