My truck Frances was in todays Newspaper

[KellyScott]

Well she got the year wrong but! ( Frances is a 1956)





Yes I know some of you don't understand cars but Frances has
a...Spirit inside her....

[whimsicaldeb]

Yes I know some of you don't understand cars but Frances has a...Spirit inside her....

I called my very first car "Shez'us" because her license plate began with SHZ. I loved that car.

My current car is a 97 Honda CRV, the very first ones to come out, and I love this car as well. She runs well, gets great gas mileage, can carry a lot of "stuff" (teenagers, my bird cages can fit in the back, etc.) plus, she's fun to drive. I love this car.

Last year it got stolen and I said to my husband "If they don't chop her, she'll come back to us." And sure enough, in a little over one week, she did.

Seems the thief liked my car so much he had decided to keep her for himself. (And remember, this is an older car!) He had even begun personalizing my car with special skull and cross bones license plate holders and personalized CD holder with CD's and such. ~laughing~ My guess is he must have fallen in love with this car, like I had. Because what the heck was he thinking in keeping this car for himself, it was stolen! But because he liked the car so much, he ended up taking good care of it while he had her, and for that I was most grateful.

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Fixing up and maintaining old cars... one neighbor is refurbishing a 67 Mustang convertible, and another couple I know has 2 40's fords that they're restoring. Two others have those classic 70's Cameros from their teens that they are keeping, can't part with ...

My theory is, when we put, pour our love into things, including these rolling hunks of metal ... others can feel it, pick up on it, and it makes/leaves a lasting a difference.

And my other theory is we humans just love to love things; cars, special writings, poetry, paintings you name it - we can love it ... it's what we do best, and it's as normal and natural for us to do as breathing.

So, I don't doubt at all that Frances has a "spirit" inside her.

[stilltrucking]

I love your truck kelly


I am a collector of happy marriages, with all the doom and gloom about protecting family values I been thinking about how many happily married people I know. Quite a lot. Kelly I am having hardware problems I have been trying to post a picture of a 18 wheeler here, but I may have to resort to a thousand words. The truck belonged to a husband and wife team. The picture is all wrong, the shinny side is down and the greasy side is up. His wife standing on her head in the sleeper. They survived got a nicer truck, last time I saw them they were still professional tourists living the good life, children grown, they travell around visiting the grand kids.

No doubt we project tender feelings on our rides. But I have had brute dumb force of tons of steel give me some rude awakenings.


I got a brother who is a broker, took him years to finally join the realtors. ., he is honest to a fault, he had some issues with the ethics code, but he had to join because his agent wanted it. As far as he was concerned the Real Estate Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia were clear enough.

[stilltrucking]

I forgot what thread you mentioned something about ethics. Geezer memory, it is is good publicity, and you know what Mae West said...

Say what happened to the article?

[stilltrucking]

never mind the what happened to the pictures, question

my computer is slower than me

page views fine

thanks again for posting truck pictures. I have some to post too. I love trucks, I can't wait for all them to be put in museums. Now that I am retired i sit in my old rocker out on the front porch and through rocks at every truck that goes by