*Brand* new, in '65??
Good grief!
You were one hot dude in a very cold world, pal. LOL!!
"A week later, around midnight me and 2 buddies rolled it down the long driveway (I had snuck the keys after dinner), started it and took off. Never had so much fun in my life. Drove all over the Michigan countryside. Returned about 2:30 AM...there was my dad, sitting on the front steps, smoking a cigarette, sipping a cup of coffee, looking calm...too damn calm."
BBBBWWWWHAAAAAAA!!!
Oh sweet Jesus, I can just SEE 'em in my mind's eye.
Just waiting, patiently. Your soul in God's hands, your ass in his. LOL!!!!!
"My 2 friends offered apologies, and ran like a thieves in the night. There I was, all alone, facing certain doom."
HA!!
Ain't it ever the truth.
"Dem Guard" would leave me in a lurch with my ol' man & bolt like a scalded cat for the safety of his home every time. Some pal, Pal. LOL
""Dad: 'Nice car, huh?' SJB: 'Oh yeah. Dad: 'Where did you go' SJB: 'Michigan' Dad: 'I suppose Chicago was a bit too far. OK, every father should cut a kid slack one time in their life. For you, this is it. All is forgiven. If you do it again, you will die. A corpse, understand?'"
Bet'chu understood so well that moment of clarity stands unequaled to this day. LOL!!
My old man, stephen, had the gall to have --unbeknownst to me, naturally-- taken mileage on his Dart 340 Swinger before I left on a Saturday night.
In the morning he approaches me, asks if I'd been to Chicago? I shit-u-not.
I said I'd never left the city of Brookfield (where we lived) and City of Milwaukee confines, never did too. One of those rare times he caught me totally flat footed so the honesty just flowed out quite naturally.
In a night's driving, I'd put on 500 miles!!
Like running the Pocono 500!!
Bet to his death he thought I'd lied, simply could not believe nor accept it could be done!
"A couple days later I asked why. He said he would have done it too! LOL!!"
Man must've been quite a man and a great father, stephen.
Mine too, I really miss 'em. ;^)
“Bet’chu understood so well that moment of clarity stands unequaled to this day. LOL!!”
I tell you, I remember it like it was yesterday!
“In a night’s driving, I’d put on 500 miles!! “
Good lord! I only put 86 on the Mustang!
“”A couple days later I asked why. He said he would have done it too! LOL!!”
Man must’ve been quite a man and a great father, stephen. “
He was indeed. A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think of him.