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jackq

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Last week while at my favorite salvage yard I looked in their back room and saw a very clean 99 Carolla parked there. The owner had been hit in the right front fender busting the marker/signal lite and ripping off the bumper cover. No hood damage and slightly tweaked the front horn that aligns the bumper. They lasered that and replaced the fender, leaving the bumper cover and lite to be bought and replaced. Clean title and runs like a champ. Got my freind Wanza to drive it to the shop and we ordered all the new parts and picked up the factory color to repaint everything when the parts get here Tuesday. My atty. has a new lincoln as does his wife so he'll buy the Carolla as a putt around car....another one flipped.
 
Hey!! New show for TLC....Flip That Car! Ok, wait, that name doesn't quite sound right! :laugh:
 
Nice li'l "retirement" ya got goin' there, Jack. :smirk:

Just can't quit, can ya. :devilgrin:
 
Retirement to me has to be done in sections. This past Feb. w flew to Fl. and spent two weeks doing the tourist thing. Every few weeks we go off to the mountains here in NM for like a four day week-end. In July and for the four the first two weeks in Aug. we fly to NY. In Oct back to Fl. for and Air Force squadron Reunion at Ft. Walton. Then in Oct off to Hi. for two weeks. I think that a schedule like that almost qualifies as retirement. If I had retired as an officer instead of a lowly Msgt....I'd have been retired years ago....:smile:
 
I hear that. I went in as <span style="font-style: italic">enlisted swine</span>. :jester: Figured <span style="font-style: italic">doing</span> was more desirable than <span style="font-style: italic">managing</span> at the time.
Had I elected to make it a career I'd have been scrambling to get a commission.
 
Sheesh Doc, you came out ok...OK?

Now for a cry story... and it's the truth. I had 28 days left on my second extension in country. Orders for Quantico, Virginia.This E-5 if he did his job properly would have come out 0-1, but 5 May 1968 came up and a sapper put one in my right tricep/bicep.... I still live and do what I like to do as far as work goes. Retire.... hope not. Works too much fun.
 
Joshin' Ron, not bitchin at all... even have friends from that time still in contact. Sorry to hear ya got 'tagged'. Somehow I lucked out. Would ride as a photo weenie on Jolly Green SAR's, plenty of times saw leetle tiny HOLES spontaneously show up in the hull. No idea why one didn't find my skinny butt.

...and I expect I'll die in harness, too. No work=no play.
 
The parts will be heere today and as soon as I can finish the paint on the 59 sliding rag-top bug in the paint booth, the Carolla will roll in for a front clip paint. My pal the atty. will drop the check off for that and hopefully one for the 2000 Trooper from one of his clients. I also got a call for oneof my Bs this week-end and have the 65 bug sold. I'm replacing the rt. rear qtr. panel and rt. rear door on a 2000 Honda Accord for the same atty. and have that one promised out also. When all is said and done it'll be a profitable couple of weeks so my wife said a few minutes ago as she was leaving for work"why don't you see if you can locate a daily driver A roadster so you can drive it till the coupe is done...then do the roadster this winter" I may have to keep that old woman.....
 
Awwww Jack.....you is a lucky man indeed!!

Wait a minute....there is "winter" in New Mexico?? LOL
 
Gets cold s a witch's err.... well, it can get really, REALLY cold out there.
 
Well all the parts are hung and adjusted on the Carolla. I may just remove the four front lites, scuff the front clip and mask and drape the rear section and finish it up this morning. Then off to the detailers on main street for a good interior cleaning. As I'm writing this my wife walked into the room and said she was leaving for work...and for me to go to the rental car site(for our trip to NY end of July..first two weeks in Aug) and upgrade our rental car to a vert?? She said since we both drive one now, we need one up there. Guess I'm pretty fortunate.
 
Indeed. But isn't that spending a bit of the Porsche money *frivilously*?!? :devilgrin:
 
Any of the rental places have Brit verts? :laugh:
 
<wonders if a Bentley or Rolls drop top can be rented...hmmmm> LOL!
 
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