I have a good story for you (sits down in comfortable chair and pops open a cold one). back in 88 the hospital in my town closed and most of the people including my parents, and some friends lost their jobs. some went to the bigger one that bought out the old one. my dad said F that and we packed up and went to Nevada. Once we were settled my dad got a neat car for him, being that we were in a area where you could drive a nice sporty car year round. he got a nice 77 Datsun 280Z 2 seat coupe. this car was wicked awesome, sporty as hell, fast as hell to (had the manual tranny in it). Well we all liked the car but since my mom worked nights we went out to dinner in his car. my little brother who was 6 at the time had to ride in the back where seats would be, holding onto the luggage straps (i was 13, no way in HELL was i sitting back there
). so my dad got another new car for him, a almost 3 year old Firebird T top coupe with a V8 and a 5 speed. the car had rims and tires off of a 77/78 SE trans am (just like the ones on the bandit car). Well we all realized that living on the other side of the country was bad. as much as my folks liked the money they made, my mom missed her mom, and my brother and I missed or other mom (my dad re married). so we came back to NY, my brother and I flew they got a moving fan and hired 2 guys to drive the Z and the Firebird back to NY. We all arrived safe and sound but it was late fall/early winter and my dad had the 2 sports cars put in a fenced in storage area (fence was made of 7-8 feet tall wavy metal sheets). Well one day we were having breakfast and we get a call from the local PD. The cop on the phone asked my dad if he owned a 77 280Z and a 85 Firebird, the color drained from his face. we go to the place where the cars were stored. both cars were there, but the Firebird was sitting on top of a wooden pallet with it's wheels missing and the t tops gone and one window busted out. the Z was fine other than the rear hatch was open and the aftermarket stereo was yanked out. but get this they used the jack in the Z to jack up the Firebird to get the wheels. the insurance company gave my dad like 1200 for the t tops, glass and wheels/tires. Well we knew a guy who could replace the door glass cheap, and we got the t tops from a junkyard off of a similar generation camaro. We were gonna get a set of factory Firebird alloys that were correct for the year but we saw a guy had a set of 77 T/A SE rims and tires for 200 bucks in the classifieds. so we got them and my dad pocketed the almost 1000 bucks difference
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