[elky] Re: When your car was new...

  • From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:01:09 -0500

Trying very hard to start a new career, and trying to start a family (that
came 2 years later).
JC

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:06 AM, <faithcubsmc2691@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Simple question:
> What were you doing when your car was new?
>
>
> My current family...
>
> 1972:
> I was a year away from making my earthly debut.
>
> 1976:
> I was 3 years old.  I welcomed my parents' first Monte Carlo to the family,
> a 1976 model that I "claimed" as "mine" in later years.  I was also a year
> away from my first open heart surgery.
>
> 1979:
> I welcomed my baby sister to the world.
>
> 1981:
> I finished first grade in the spring; started second grade in the fall.
>
> 1987:
> I was in middle school ... and had to say goodbye to my best friend who
> died of an asthma attack.
>
>
> Former members...
>
> 1988:
> I finished middle school and entered the world of High School.  I first
> started thinking about having one of every single YEAR of the Monte Carlo.
> I later re-thought that ... with the goal of one of each generation, which I
> completed March 2002.
>
> 1997:
> I started my first full-time job, after graduating from college a year
> earlier.  I also put my '79 MC Landau (first car) away for the winter and
> bought a new "daily driver".
>
> 2000:
> I was one Monte Carlo away from completing the family, having bought the
> '81 MC SC from my parents December 1999 and the '76 MC Landau a year before
> that; I've never bought a Monte Carlo brand new.  I was still working at the
> same company, but had switched jobs in late 1999, about the same time I
> bought the 2000 vehicle.  Health wise, I was (unbeknownst to me at the time)
> 3 years away from my 3rd open heart surgery.
>
>
>
> Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker **
> 07/24/2010=ChitownMeet #3 **
> MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 =
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
> "The thing I find most amazing in amazing grace is the chance to give it
> out" ... Brandon Heath ... 'I'm Not Who I Was'
>
>

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