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Delivering one last gift
« on: January 25, 2012, 08:35:35 PM »

http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1298199044001&odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|featured

Synopsis: a captain in the Wyoming National Guard buys a basket-case 1959 Chevy Apache to restore for his wife.  Pays a local mechanic $17K to fix it up.  Captain is deployed to Afghanistan and is KIA.  Mechanic skedaddles with the money without doing the work.  A group of volunteers restores the truck and gives it to his widow.

Some people are pretty darn cool.

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Re: Delivering one last gift
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 11:14:29 AM »
Darned dust in the room!

And I seem to have missed the part where the mechanic was wheeled out and extended his double-arm cast to return the $17K.  But I'm thinking the kind of folks who would put the truck back together would make sure that other thing was also taken care of.

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Re: Delivering one last gift
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 11:53:30 AM »
The good people who made this happen are why i still have hope for the future of this country...

The dirtbag who ran withthe money is why I passed us a big money job in a law firm to be a prosecutor, and now magistrate judge.
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Re: Delivering one last gift
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 09:40:19 PM »
The dirtbag better keep running ...
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Re: Delivering one last gift
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 01:21:17 AM »
Such an awesome story.  Saw the Overhaulin sign on the garage door when the rolled the finished truck in.  Wonder if Foose had any involvement?
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