[DAVID GAGNARD]

Southern;

I want 20k for the car. I did not sell it there,but have two very interested people and one "gotta get the wife's approval first".One guy that saw it called a buddy in Orlando and described the car while standing in front of it and the guy in Orlando called me on my cell phone later that day very interested and asked me to e-mail pics and specs to him......

Problem is now I had so much fun on the trip I'm having second thoughts..... Half way there we stopped for breakfast and a 13 year old with us was just absolutley ga ga over my car,I told his dad while he was using the "facilitys" if it was o-k with him I'd love to have his son ride "shotgun" with me the rest of the way,he could not beleive I'd do that with a kid I'd only met 2 hours earlier,said that would make his day as well as the boy's. When we finished breakfast and were getting ready to hit the road I told Tommy I needed a co-pilot and asked if he would like the job,he about fell over and when he looked at his dad and his dad gave him the o-k nod,it took him 2.3 seconds to run across the parking lot and jump in. Showed him how to buckle the racing seats belts and off we went. The next two hours he never stopped talking about how cool it is to ride in a classic like mine and when we stopped again for gas and bathroom he did not want to get out..... The next day his dad told me how much he apreciated what I had done and how it made his son's trip. I told him I probably enjoyed having him with me more than he enjoyed the ride. Dad also said he stayed up half the nite just talking about the ride to Florida and how he"ll never forget it. Once there he took a bunch of pictures of Tommy in my car with me and then I got out and told him to slip in behind the wheel for more pictures,you could not believe the grin on that kids face the rest of the weekend....Leaving Sunday morning I told his dad seeing how much he enjoyed the ride meant more to me than my trophy I won at the show. With that we loaded up and headed out. Tommy took another roll of film of my car and me in it will driving down the interstate home,I'm sure next week everyone at his school will have seen all the pics.....

Weekends like that make all the hard work and skint knuckles I put into that car seem very worthwhile now.Hope to continue having weekends like that for a very long time...........

David