Good for you! Derbying good cars like that is criminal but lying to old
people like they did is immoral. They got what they deserved.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy J. LaPean" <pctocso@xxxxxxxx>
To: "IML" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: IML: Demo derby buying story from when I was a kid
I grew up in a demo family and when I was about
fifteen or sixteen, my older brother and father sold
our blue 68 crown 4dr. The car I loved, the car I had
learned how to drive in. It had been put out on a
friends farm as we weren't using it at the moment as a
daily driver, so they sold it to a derby guy on the
sly (because they didn't think the frame was clean
enough to run it themselves (they ran Chivvys anyway
for the most part)) and didn't tell me.
When I found out, I didn't speak to either of them for
weeks. But you can't hold out forever. I did however
get even. About 3 months later, when all seemed
smooth. We were out and about in WI and they stopped
to see if the could finally spring a green 4DR 67 or 8
from this old lady that they'd been talking to on and
off for years. They said pretty much what she wanted
to hear and she didn't feel like hobbling out with
them to look at it and just gave them the keys to look
at it. It seemed like she was gonna finally let it go
and cheap.
I acted like I wasn't feeling like pawing through the
car. I just stayed in the house and had tea with this
sweet old lady who loved her car. And I told her what
they had done to my beloved blue 68. She didn't
actually pick up the shotgun when to told them to get
off her land, it was just leaning up against the wall
in easy arm's reach. I winked at her and she nodded
me a discrete thanks.
Mad as all H that I had foiled their little plot, I
pretty much just said, "ya reap what you sow. And
don't forget I know where every Imperial, GM wagon,
etc... you two are watching is and I could do this to
every single one of them so I'd suggest you drop it
right here, cuz we're even." And they dropped it
after a little grumbling.
It was a bit evil, but well deserved.
Timothy 60 "Virgil"
PS They have reformed their ways a lot, but do still
demo. My bro now keeps several well maintained
Imperials as drivers and has been the biggest help in
the world about teaching me everything I don't know
about "wrenching" as I have worked on "Virgil"
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