Jays99Spyder
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- Feb 22, 2020
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Waukegan,
Illinois
This is a story about my dream car and how our journey together. The car has been in my family since 2001 when my brother and I picked it out of a select few cars my mother was able to get with her insurance money for a previous accident. Not a very practical family car but we all fell in love with it. My brother at the time was the only one out of us two that had a license since I was only maybe 13 or 14 at the time. If I had to go anywhere believe me I want him dropping me off and picking me up in that car. It was probably the coolest thing my brother and I have ever had even though it was our mothers, but we didn't tell the other kids that . All the nights we would sneak out together and go for a drive were some of the best memories I had even after we got caught by our dad. On March 5th 2005 my brother pasted away when our house caught fire and he was not able to make it out. The fire took everything from us and we were left with only our memories of "nick" and the car. I wasn't even 17 yet and I lost my best friend. A lot was put on my shoulders because my mom fell into a deep depression over my brothers death and my father could not work because he was losing his eyesight from diabetes since 2001. This car saved me from a low point in my life when I felt I lost everything and the stress of being there for my parents was just to much. Nothing felt better than just dropping the top and taking a drive to forget it all. When I was ready to start my senior year of high school my mom knew how much I loved the car and what it meant to me so she ended up giving it to me. At this point in my life the car was more then just sentimental to me, it would become my first car. If there was something cool I could do to it I was doing it and stopping by my brothers burial site to show him all the new improvements I was doing. One year on my way home from work the transmission went out on me so I parked it in the garage. I always had bigger dreams for that car but just didn't know how to go about it. One day I met someone in the junkyard who had a great knowledge on these cars and to later find out he actually knew my brother in high school. We became good friends and he was mentoring me on how I can make this car everything I wanted it to be. We did so much to this car while my dad was in the garage almost every step of the way. He was an old school muscle guy but he loved being there to listen to all the changes we were doing while sharing stories of his own. This car was no easy build being the fact it was such an extreme budget build and like most people when they get older life and kids happen. I went from meeting a girl to her getting pregnant to getting married all in a year to just end up divorced and bills up the you know what. That being said since it was a low budget built many corners were cut and things got reused which caused many complications. With so many things happening, what was once a simple project turned into something that was sitting in my parents garage for years. Unfortunately I was not able to finish the car before my dad past away. Shortly after that my mom lost the house and the car needed to be moved. It went from sitting at my uncle's driveway to my friends driveway to my other friends driveway to my fiance's mother's garage all in the past 4 years. Now my dream car that brought me so much happiness has now become a burden sitting on my shoulders because I just cant part with it and I can't finish her because I don't have the know how nor a lot of funds to keep putting into her since I'm the main supporter for my fiance and our 3 kids(right when I find a decent paying job covid hits and loose hours).... Well anyways I guess I joined DsmTuners to find friends and ppl to help me finish my precious car from rotting away or worse is some junkyard. I'm just hoping when I get enough funds that I've met some great ppl who can help turn my dream turned nightmare back into a dream again.