If you can make it through this whole story without having your heart strings tugged, you’re tougher than we are. This story totally sums up what the gearhead life is all about. Carrigan Brown of Emmett, Idaho, has terminal cancer. He also has a 1941 Plymouth project that has been dormant for years and never finished. Cue a dedicated band of friends determined to build the car while Brown has time to enjoy it.
In a truly inspiring story that we found at the website of the Idaho Statesman newspaper, Brown’s dream car is literally being built in front of his eyes by his gearhead pals. There are guys working full time on the project, some working as time allows, and even others traveling from hundreds of miles away to help out a man who helped out lots of others during his time as an ace body man in California.
According to the story, Brown and his wife moved to Emmett about five years ago for their reitrement. Shortly after moving there, car guys saw him working on hot rods and cool stuff, and he was soon brought into the local gearhead fold. Those guys form the core group that’s thrashing on the project, probably as you read this to make sure the man they call “Brownie” has time for a couple cruises before he’s wrenching on hot rods in the sky.
These guys are total hot rod heroes, it is a truly awesome thing that they are doing and Brown really understands that. This story brings up all that is good about being a gearhead.
