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Hey guys,
I had a situation happen that just doesn't make sense. I was pals with an old guy that lives up the road. This guy is a gear head and a Mopar guy, so we have become buds over the years. Thing is, he has been struggling as long as I've known him. He is in pretty good shape for his size and age, but don't work and is collecting SSI for being fat. I know he is behind on the mortgage and I give him some work sometimes to help him pay the bills.
Anyway, he has this 70 Dodge challenger ragtop that is his project (rare car), and it has been setting in his yard for as long as I've known him. The car was pretty clean when he got it, and I've been trying to buy it off him for years. He got it in his head to build a fresh motor for it. Pulled it apart, and it has been deteriorating outside for the last five years. Now he wants to build a stroker 383, but has no money to get it done. He seem to be obsessing about the project, spending money for parts and letting the bills go. He's doing everything on the engine half-assed and wrong, but will not listnen when I tell him what to do. His old lady came by last week and said the old man has blown all the money on the motor, and can't pay the bills. She hit me up for $500 to help them out.
Well, I had enough. I knew he was going to the ball game and hitched my trailer up and headed over to his place. Hooked up the Challenger to dragged it home, but for some reason he came back early and went berserk when he saw the car on the trailer. I shoved him in the corner of the shop, and duct-taped his ass, and then brought the Challenger home. I've got a nice 440 that I'm going to drop in and will have this sweet ride ready in no time. I knew he didn't transfer the title because he didn't want to pay the fees and had no real papers on the car. I figure it was for the best to just grab it and give the car the restoration it deserves. The crazy old SOB came around and started hollering and raising all kinds of hell, even though there is no way he would have done anything with it. Now I hear he is bad-mouthing me behind my back, even though when you think about it I did him and the car a favor. Some people.
-dulcich
I had a situation happen that just doesn't make sense. I was pals with an old guy that lives up the road. This guy is a gear head and a Mopar guy, so we have become buds over the years. Thing is, he has been struggling as long as I've known him. He is in pretty good shape for his size and age, but don't work and is collecting SSI for being fat. I know he is behind on the mortgage and I give him some work sometimes to help him pay the bills.
Anyway, he has this 70 Dodge challenger ragtop that is his project (rare car), and it has been setting in his yard for as long as I've known him. The car was pretty clean when he got it, and I've been trying to buy it off him for years. He got it in his head to build a fresh motor for it. Pulled it apart, and it has been deteriorating outside for the last five years. Now he wants to build a stroker 383, but has no money to get it done. He seem to be obsessing about the project, spending money for parts and letting the bills go. He's doing everything on the engine half-assed and wrong, but will not listnen when I tell him what to do. His old lady came by last week and said the old man has blown all the money on the motor, and can't pay the bills. She hit me up for $500 to help them out.
Well, I had enough. I knew he was going to the ball game and hitched my trailer up and headed over to his place. Hooked up the Challenger to dragged it home, but for some reason he came back early and went berserk when he saw the car on the trailer. I shoved him in the corner of the shop, and duct-taped his ass, and then brought the Challenger home. I've got a nice 440 that I'm going to drop in and will have this sweet ride ready in no time. I knew he didn't transfer the title because he didn't want to pay the fees and had no real papers on the car. I figure it was for the best to just grab it and give the car the restoration it deserves. The crazy old SOB came around and started hollering and raising all kinds of hell, even though there is no way he would have done anything with it. Now I hear he is bad-mouthing me behind my back, even though when you think about it I did him and the car a favor. Some people.
-dulcich
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