[DAVID GAGNARD]

In the course of a routine weeks work, I generally travel about 1/5 of my home state, and a large part of that is on back roads........Over the last 13 years, I guess I've about seen it all, everything my old VWs to 57 T-Birds and all sorts of Fords and Chevys, all collector cars......... I used to stop and inquire, but quit that years ago, then I get kinda upset for folks letting them rot away..........

Now I think of my own situation, I have a 65 Mustang road race car that has been on the track for 2 years now and I'm loving every minute of it. I can see myself doing this for another 5 or so years, then selling the car......

I also have a 65 Fastback which I restored in 1994 to be a clone of a 1966 Shelby GT-350..... I drive it monthly and at different times have drag raced it and road raced it and showed it...Since 1994, my daughter and I have only missed 3 forth of July parades in it together in my own home town (I was at the SAAC conventions those years),she's now 21 years old and will be in it together this year again and I'llenjoy the parade with her like I do everytime we do a parade together.... About once a year I get an offer from someone to buy the car and the best offer so far is more than 3 times the money I have in the car and I did not even think for a New York second when I turned it down..........The guy could not beleive I turned him down so quickly..........

You see, the memories of my daughter helping me work on the car all these years and me picking her up at grade school on fridays in the car and us doing a couple of parades every year are worth a lot more than anyone would ever pay me for the car!!!!!!!! Some day when I'm too old to enjoy the car and just not interested in it anymore, I'll drive it over to her house and hand her the title and keys, you see, I know she drive it and enjoy it and maybe even think of her old dad when she gets in it..............

Some things, you just never part with, no matter what..............

David