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Old 06-17-2018, 8:34pm   #1
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Default Son's interest in Camaro leads to discovery

My youngest son pretty much wants to know everything about the first '69 Camaro I owned back in 1984. Name of the person I got it from (and sold back to) etc. Anyway, it turns out my old buddy and former neighbor where I grew up in Va passed away in August of 2015. We had lost contact back in the 80's, but I still hated to learn. He was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, and was a straight up nut. Bunch of good memories. As long as I knew him, he always had Corvettes. Last time I saw him, which I think was 1986, he had a beautiful '79 L82 Car, and an '85, along with the Camaro I sold back to him.

I told my son that I had a good picture of him from back in the 80's standing next to his boat before we left for High Rock lake near Lexington NC. It is just a reminder of how fast time slips by on us, because hell, he was still a young man in the picture, but in his obit picture he looked like an old man. He passed at 67, and I guess things are all relative at this point. I was a friend of his wife's brother Rusty who I have known since childhood.

Here is his obit if you are interested. I think I always hoped I would run across him again at some point. I always loved '69 Camaro's and Corvettes, and he definitely fueled my fire for those cars. RIP buddy, those were some good times!

http://carolinacremation.com/obituar...furr-salisbury
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Sorry to hear about your friend.

My first car was actually a 1969 Camaro. Nothing special, base coupe. White, black interior, 307 two barrel powerglide. Had a set of chrome slotted A/FX wheels and white letter tires. I paid $400 for it in July 1977.
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My first car was actually a 1969 Camaro. Nothing special, base coupe. White, black interior, 307 two barrel powerglide. Had a set of chrome slotted A/FX wheels and white letter tires. I paid $400 for it in July 1977.
The car that I got from Bill was olympic gold with black stripes and a black vinyl top. It had Z/28 emblems, which well, I still love. If I remember correctly, his brother had bought it new, and it was an original 6 cylinder car. I still have the registration (along with a bunch of pictures) and the vin does in fact indicate a 6 cyl car. That said, when I had it, it had a 427, M-22, and a 12 bolt with 4:56 gears. That sumbitch was a beast. No power steering, and still had drums in the front, so when you hit the brakes, you were steering it to keep it straight! The motor that was in it was built by some other guys I ended up knowing back in the day. They had run it in a straight up drag car. To say it had bad manners would be an understatement. I have some good memories of all that stuff.
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My youngest son pretty much wants to know everything about the first '69 Camaro I owned...
Your user name makes sense now, too.
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Your user name makes sense now, too.
Same sorta reason my handle mrvette, but for email addy I had to add -72 onto the handle.......

and how I got the mrvette handle was because the ISP i hopped on a dial up with in '95 asked me what handle I wanted, and so I thought about a friend who was MrGTO......who does highly advanced State Dept (yes, hillary) computer .com work, the top person in state doing that work.....so if we want the whole story, we ask MrGTO.....

my first car was a '60 vette in '66 paid a grand for it....283 power slide, power windows....after that loss, I jumped into Pontiacs.....

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In his defense Kerry, you and I have known each other for a long time!
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