[TheForge] Anyone there? OT:

[Jerry Frost]

I remember the broke days, I sold or passed on lots of things that'd be 
pretty valuable to me now. I don't think I ever made 600% on anything 
though. A friend of mine chanced on a 57 (I think) Buick Roadmaster we 
worked on for weeks getting running and barely made enough to break even 
plus sodas.

Jer
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:


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> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Okay, I AM surprised; you SOLD your woody! I'm thinking the closest we 
>> came
>> when I was a kid was a Chevy wagon with some kind of wood veneer-like
>> substance on the sides and both folks swore NEVER again. Then again I 
>> never
>> was one of the cool kids, when we went surfing we took a pickup truck.
> I was never a surfer..fishing, tide pool collecting
> diving and small boats etc mostly.
> I bought the woody for $25 and managed to get it running
> after working on it for days. The wood was pretty rotted
> on the bottom and the sway bar was broken..it had a
> straight 8 in it.
> Was really poor then and when someone offered $150, i
> went for it! Hey, it was 2 months rent and i was making
> $1.25/ hr, working in a gas station nights and weekends
> while going to school.
>>