Re: The gods of irony (a little long, but hopefully enjoyable)

[Gary Futrell <gary-futrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Arlyn,

  Since I live in Norman, you were just lucky to have
that Polara from Norman, because if I had seen it in
the Norman Transcript, it would have been gone.

  Gary


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> Greetings fellow Moparians.
> 
> I am beginning to seriously question my recent
> actions in selling my 64
> Polara.  Naturally, I debated it for sometime before
> following through on
> the decision, but recently I received some news from
> my younger brother that
> really left me close to kicking myself.  Allow me to
> elaborate.
> 
> My introduction to mopars came from a 64 Polara 500
> (383) that my dad bought
> for my sister to drive back in the later 70s.  By
> 1983, when it was my turn
> to drive, that's the car I cut my teeth on, in
> driving and repairs.  Not
> only was it really fun to drive, but the gods smiled
> on me and gave me the
> oppurtunity to repair brakes, rebuild carbs, and
> replace the cam, timing
> system, lifters, etc. one summer.  My brothers and I
> even named the car
> "Sherman II" and put blue decals of "Sherman II"
> behind the driver's side
> mirror.
> 
> When I moved out in 1985, my brothers clamored for
> something "cooler" and
> were given a late 70s Porsche 924 (the
> VW/Audi/Porsche hybrid), and the
> Polara was sold to a fellow we went to church with.
> 
> Fast forward to 1998.  I was living in Norman, OK,
> married, with two kids,
> and in graduate school.  We needed a second car, and
> while browsing the
> local Norman paper I find an ad for a 64 Polara,
> 318, pushbutton.  I take
> the wife and kids to show them a car like I had as a
> kid.  The next day, I
> own it, and over the next six months find myself
> doing much of the same work
> I had once done on the first Polara.  Also, as the
> first repeat 64 Polara
> owner in the family, I was given the wheel covers
> and headlight trim kept
> from the first Polara.
> 
> Two months ago, however, the needs vs. desires
> debate surfaced in my mind
> again.  We've been a two-car family since 1998, but
> now some of the needs
> have increased.  No new kids, but we've started
> heating with wood, and the
> need for a decent pickup was becoming more than
> apparent.  Additionally, I
> had caught the motorcycle bug from one that was
> given to me from a friend.
> Enter two other friends wanting me to buy a 3/4 ton
> GM truck from one
> ($800), and a 1980 Suzuki GS850L ($500) from the
> other.  Couple this with
> people out of the blue asking to buy my Polara from
> me.
> 
> So, I cross the Rubicon, sell the car, and buy the
> truck and the bike, and
> decide to sell off the wheel covers and trim to
> finance the work (brakes for
> the truck and carbs for the bike) and registration
> for my two new
> acquisitions.
> 
> The day that the last peice of Polara memorabilia is
> packaged and mailed, I
> get a call from my younger brother who spearheaded
> the sale of the first
> Polara, back in the day.  He tells me that in his
> company, he has an
> employee whose wife's name is Summer.  When Summer
> learns of her husband's
> boss's name (Hyrum), and the names of his brothers
> (Arlyn [me] and Eric) she
> is instantly reminded of three brothers she knew of
> at her church when she
> was younger who had the same names.  How could you
> forget.  She also recalls
> her dad buying a big old car from them.  She was
> about five or six at the
> time, and her main memories of the car are getting
> her finger closed in the
> door, and (get ready) the blue letters spelling
> "Sherman II" on the driver's
> door.
> 
> Shutup!  Shutup!  It's true.  According to Summer,
> the family kept the car
> for some time, and then gave it to someone else in
> the family.  My brother
> tells me that she and the rest of the family are
> going to see if they can
> track the car down, or at least determine when it
> left the family, or worse,
> was put to pasture.  Of course, if the original
> Sherman II 64 Polara 500
> (383) is still around and available, I expect my two
> brothers and I to put
> up a good fight claiming it.  As long as it ends up
> with one of us is the
> important thing I suppose.
> 
> Still, the timing and the irony just about kill me. 
> So here's something
> that Gary can put on the website to add "the rest of
> the story" in my case,
> and give it some closure.
> 
> However, my daughter will turn 14 next January, and
> I've promised to buy a
> car for the kids when they turn 14 so we can spend
> the next two years fixing
> it up.  And, one of out friends here has a '65
> Polara that's in good body
> shape but missing an engine.  Hmmm.  I smell a 383
> somewhere and a project
> waiting to begin.  The story continues . . .
> 
> Arlyn
> 
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