Your story reminded me of something that happened years ago in memphis. I live in N. C. Before I got married my fiance had a 1984 Ford Thunderbird car. She got a new car so she gave the thunderbird to her 18 year old brother who lived with his parents in southeast Kansas. I remember when he flew out here to pick it up he got 2 speeding tickets on his way back to Kansas. We thought he would wreck it or maybe blow the engine and we would never see the little beast again. After we got married my mother in law dediced to have us a huge party in Kansas since we forgot to invite us to our wedding out here in N. C. There must have been 300 people at that party. Sometime during the party my mother in law tells us to come out to the car shed to see our wedding gift. We don't have a clue what is going on. When we get there we see a grey 1984 thunderbird, that used to be red, setting there with a huge ribbon tied around it. My wife and I just looked at each other wondering why in the hell she would think we would want that old car back. Not only did she have it painted, she had the engine totally rebuilt. Well the party visit was finally over so we loaded up her car and the old thunderbird with wedding gifts packed to the gills and headed back to N. C. I drove the T bird. We got as far as Memphis and on I-40 in the center of Memphis I felt the power steering go out. Then the overheat light flashed on. I hit the nearest ramp and got it off the interstate and went about 1 quarter of a mile and stopped and turned the motor off. When I tried to start it back up it was locked up tighter than a drum. The guy who overhauled it had put too big of a battery in it, the battery rubbed the fan belt, it broke, power steering went out, it overheated, and fried the engine. Here we were in Memphis with a car we did not want packed full of wedding gifts, motor blown, and no way to get it home. Thank you dear Mother in Law. To make a long story short, I found a place that would store it, gifts and all, and we came on home. I found a used engine and about 2 months later I borrowed a truck to go get it and tow it home. By the time I got it fixed and paid the storage fee I had about $1700 in it. I sold it for $1700.00. Not because of the car episode but many times I think how Lucky I am. I am lucky the my mother in law lives 1200 miles away.
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