gray ghost #2

Until today I hadn't felt the rush of writing a big check since building our home.

When I was 16 my grandfather gave me a 1976 gray Cutlass Supreme. Being the the bicentennial year it had 2 bald eagles on the owners manual. It was a 2 door but should have been 4. If you opened the doors in a parking lot without at least 1 free space on each side you would likely leave a mark in somebodies rig. The shocks were blown so when you got up to speed it felt like you were floating. It had an old BMX trophy as a hood ornament and tons of cool stickers in the rear window. That baby rolled to a few of my first bike races with Wyatt and Adam in the back seat and the bikes in the trunk, they don't make trunks like that anymore. All the neighbour kids paid me gas money to give them a ride to school, we packed them in and I had a waiting list.

When it finally wouldn't pass inspection I sold it to a scrap yard for $50. About 6 months later I got a letter in the mail from the state asking if my Cutlass had been stolen because it had been recovered from a high speed chase and armed robbery.

the legend continues.....