haha..... yah time flys bro. i'll be 55 in july..... my kids are all
adults. geeezzzzze
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Gary Hedlin wrote:
> Yeah, I remember being a new guy with a brand spankin new 98... god
> how the time flies. Even sadder is i've been trapped in the 05 for
> almost 6 years now.
>
> Gary
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:10 PM, TerribleTom
> <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/20/2011 6:10 PM, Robert Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Bob!
>>> Things are good here. She's had some welds already, but like I said
>>> after 12 years of NY winters and 166K miles she's kinda beat.
>>> She marks her territory with antifreeze & power steering fluid &
>>> burns a
>>> little oil. Just had her 2nd crank position sensor, & coil.
>>> Exhaust has been re-welded at the exhaust manifold...
>>> She's still mostly a daily driver, but only in the winter months, as
>>> I
>>> ride the Softail a LOT.
>>> As long as I can nurse her along, I'll hold onto her...
>>> Starting a new job in acoupla weeks & Susan & I will be car or bike
>>> pooling so she'll sit more than she'll be driven.
>>> I figure I'll ALWAYS have a truck - as long as I own a house - but a
>>> new
>>> one or even a used one is WAY out of the question for the time
>>> being...
>>> Flat out can't afford one...
>>>
>>
>> hey Bob.. yanno - its hard for me to think of your Dak as "old and
>> beat".
>> You were always "one of those guys on the DML with the new Gen
>> III's!"
>> When I signed up, your truck was barely a year old. Anything newer
>> than a
>> 1989 is "new" to me. Yesterday I replied that I had owned Christine
>> 10
>> years now... and it occurred to me, that the damned thing is almost
>> 22
>> damned years old! No wonder the freaking frame is gone! Which makes
>> your
>> truck a ripe age of 11 years!
>>
>> Just can't wrap my mind around how fast time flys. Its unreal. I
>> get
>> customers coming into work, check their ID's when they hand me a
>> credit
>> card, and I see birthdays younger than my own truck and it makes me
>> cringe.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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> Gary Hedlin
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>
> --Many talk about those who died, but too few talk about those who
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