My cars went up and down in quality and sportiness. From the souped up Buick to after graduating and moving to Tennessee bought a Mazda RX7 (yes, Lil Mikey fit into it). On our honeymoon drove it into Nuevo Laredo - paid some $$$ for someone to keep an eye on it when we parked it. After honeymoon sold it for a down payment on the house and drove my wife's '74 - long-nosed Monte Carlo until I could find a cheap truck - a little red Ford Ranger - don't even remember the year - but no ac, radio didn't work, nothing power and the usual rust where the firewall met the body panels. It was the first auto my daughter knew me to drive and she loved it - she always wanted to go for a ride in the little red truck!!! Drove it until it just about fell apart then bought a C1500 - don't remember the year, but it was the first year they had the non-parallel bed walls. (you couldn't buy a topper or anything - wouldn't fit) I was so proud of that truck, heat that worked, AC, windshield not cracked, no rust, power locks, supercab, automatic, etc..!!!! In fact just having the AC was a big thing. The second day I had it, driving home I looked over and saw some guy lying on some gravel off the side of the road. It was brutally hot, so decided to turn around and offer the AC in my brand new truck for him to recover in. Well, he wasn't moving and his work partner came running down from the house (he had called the ambulance - pre-mobile phones) and said he was having trouble. Check for pulse, wasn't any. So started CPR. He'd revive, start breathing and have a pulse, then a minute or two later I'd lose the pulse again and start CPR again. Did this about 4 times. After what seemed like hours, the ambulance arrived and they hooked him up to an EKG. (pre-defibrillator). Flat-line. They put him in the ambulance flat-lined. I was kinda bummed for quite a while. Three weeks later the girl in the front of our office, buzzed me to come to the front. There was an older guy and a young lady (his daughter) standing there. I invited them into the conference room. He introduced himself as the guy who I worked on and he just wanted to come by and thank me. I have no idea how he got my name. I held my composure until they left, then I went back to my office, sat down in my chair and my eyes started dripping water! My whole body was shaking! I've never told anyone but my wife about this!
