Heart Break!
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 129
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From: Central Ohio
Traded my v-star for an 08 RoadKing. My wife watched the idiot salesman at Theils come out and get on someone else's Yamaha and try to start it for a couple minutes before he moved on the the right bike. Great bike, great service, good deal, idiots in sales...
Live and learn - too many dealers to worry about one bad one.
Live and learn - too many dealers to worry about one bad one.
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 157
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From: Joelton, TN
I remember letting one go, my first ex-wife. Finally had enough of her, took her for a drive in the desert. Didn't kill her, just buried her alive but only deep enough for the coyotes to dig up her feet, just a couple of feet.
Walking back to the bike I realized I had violated the first rule of doing someone in, yep, I had forgot to rifle through her pockets for valuables, she had the keys to the bike in her jeans, I didn't think about it since I'd been drinking and told her to put them in her pocket so I wouldn't lose them.
Well, you can imagine how stupid I felt having to dig her back up and wrestle the keys from her just to put her back down in the hole.
If that hole had been much deeper I would have lost that bike for good and felt like you now. Whewy! That was a close one.
Walking back to the bike I realized I had violated the first rule of doing someone in, yep, I had forgot to rifle through her pockets for valuables, she had the keys to the bike in her jeans, I didn't think about it since I'd been drinking and told her to put them in her pocket so I wouldn't lose them.
Well, you can imagine how stupid I felt having to dig her back up and wrestle the keys from her just to put her back down in the hole.
If that hole had been much deeper I would have lost that bike for good and felt like you now. Whewy! That was a close one.
she is lonely, and realizes how bad she screwed up. But the new wife
is just like my Electra Glide, neither one is going anywhere.
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Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Nevada
I remember letting one go, my first ex-wife. Finally had enough of her, took her for a drive in the desert. Didn't kill her, just buried her alive but only deep enough for the coyotes to dig up her feet, just a couple of feet.
Walking back to the bike I realized I had violated the first rule of doing someone in, yep, I had forgot to rifle through her pockets for valuables, she had the keys to the bike in her jeans, I didn't think about it since I'd been drinking and told her to put them in her pocket so I wouldn't lose them.
Well, you can imagine how stupid I felt having to dig her back up and wrestle the keys from her just to put her back down in the hole.
If that hole had been much deeper I would have lost that bike for good and felt like you now. Whewy! That was a close one.
Walking back to the bike I realized I had violated the first rule of doing someone in, yep, I had forgot to rifle through her pockets for valuables, she had the keys to the bike in her jeans, I didn't think about it since I'd been drinking and told her to put them in her pocket so I wouldn't lose them.
Well, you can imagine how stupid I felt having to dig her back up and wrestle the keys from her just to put her back down in the hole.
If that hole had been much deeper I would have lost that bike for good and felt like you now. Whewy! That was a close one.
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 126
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From: SoCal
I had to sell my first car (1990 mustang GT) to help mom, after dad was killed. That was tough in so many ways. Happily, my bike has filled that void.
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My first car was a 1966 Mustang coupe. It was a Sprint model with a 200 six in it. My Grandfather bought it and rebuilt the engine with the intent on selling it to me, which he did. I think I paid $1200 for it in 1989.
It was far from restored with the exception of the engine. I busted my butt for the next 2 years to restore that car. I took a job at a body shop and was able to do some of the work myself. By the time my senior year rolled around I had a really nice car. Painted it black, had some chrome modular wheels on it, put an interior kit in it, and lowered it about an inch.
After that, I got a much better paying job and the inner hot rodder took over. I yanked out the six cylinder and replaced it with a mild 302 complete with a flowmaster exhaust. The thing sounded really good. Put a shift kit in the C-4 and stuck an 8" rear end under it with 3.73 gears. Fastest I went was a 13.10 in the quarter on street tires.
Got married a few years later. The Stang was starting to show the effects of being street raced and generally beat on from all those years. I just wasn't cutting it as my only car and I couldn't afford a new one without selling it.
Sold it to a kid that couldn't take his eyes off it. The whole process that I went through with the car was about to start over again. I shed a couple of tears when he drove it away, but 3 weeks later I lost it. I learned that the kid got broad sided in it by a drunk driver and was killed. Tears me up just thinking about it.
Zach
It was far from restored with the exception of the engine. I busted my butt for the next 2 years to restore that car. I took a job at a body shop and was able to do some of the work myself. By the time my senior year rolled around I had a really nice car. Painted it black, had some chrome modular wheels on it, put an interior kit in it, and lowered it about an inch.
After that, I got a much better paying job and the inner hot rodder took over. I yanked out the six cylinder and replaced it with a mild 302 complete with a flowmaster exhaust. The thing sounded really good. Put a shift kit in the C-4 and stuck an 8" rear end under it with 3.73 gears. Fastest I went was a 13.10 in the quarter on street tires.
Got married a few years later. The Stang was starting to show the effects of being street raced and generally beat on from all those years. I just wasn't cutting it as my only car and I couldn't afford a new one without selling it.
Sold it to a kid that couldn't take his eyes off it. The whole process that I went through with the car was about to start over again. I shed a couple of tears when he drove it away, but 3 weeks later I lost it. I learned that the kid got broad sided in it by a drunk driver and was killed. Tears me up just thinking about it.
Zach
