Posted on 12/12/2009 4:47:30 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
FRAZEE, Minn. -- Some young men like to talk sports. Tyler Shipman's favorite topic is a car model that last rolled down an assembly line three years before he was born.
"I got my first one when I was 15," says Tyler about the Pontiac Fiero with which he fell in love after seeing one on the internet. "They were something different ... they drive really sweet."
General Motors pulled the plug on the sporty mid-engine two-seater in 1988 after a four year run. Quality issues dogged the car from the start. Tyler didn't care.
In August, before starting his final year at Frazee High School, Tyler had his senior portraits taken in front of his third Fiero, a white 1986 GT. The photo captured the smile of a young man who hadn't a care in the world. He'd just turned 18.
Within weeks Tyler learned he had an aggressive cancer called synovial sarcoma.
(Excerpt) Read more at kare11.com ...
Yeah....I don’t normally watch KARE11, but for some unknown reason.....
A little bit of eye trouble, along with a lump in the throat.
Oh, wow! That’s fantastic! And just down the road from here.
Nice story. Crappy car. Glad it makes the fella happy, though.
This surely deserves a NASCAR ping as it exemplifies the spirt of Christmas...
Wasn’t that a garbage of a car that had it’s engine in the rear?
Read the story and with teary eyes I right this. America at her best. God bless everyone who carries her in their heart
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oh no, how sad. My eyes aren’t working well either and I’m an oncologist.
I grew up 35 miles from Frazee, and my wife has relatives there. Great little town.
Why is my monitor getting so blurry........??
Militant
the v6 was a mid-engine. the crappy I4 version had rear mounted engine.
(I once had the crap version)
I once saw one with the rear wheel turned out...
...prolly a bad day fer the owner!
Yeah, me too.
Those suckers could carve corners with the best of the euro cars of the time. The ones I’ve seen at car-craft in the summer with an LS1 dropped in are downright crazy little monsters.
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