Guest Post by Billy Elliott When dad went New Mexico in 1972, he left Mom our ’63 Rambler to get around Hacienda Heights in (to the store, to church, school…). Well, one day it just quit, and being only 10-years-old at the time, I wasn’t exactly the diagnostic technician I’d wished I was. We didn’t […]
Couplings
Growing up, my father was always repairing something that was broken. More often than not, it was some bombed-out used car. Seriously, my father spent most of my childhood under the hood of a car trying to get it running again. Once, he was under a jacked-up car and the jack collapsed and the car […]
Jen’s Used Car Story #1
When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my big sister, Linda, sent my father 500 hard-earned dollars she’d saved for a car. She wanted something cute and little, but instead, he virtually devastated her by purchasing a vehicle that looked very similar to the one above. I’m not certain of the model, but it […]