2 posts tagged “1965”

i got this photo from our niece nicole.  i love this photo of my hubby and his family and the whole retro look is suhweet!  i am guessing this is circa 1965ish?!  hubby is the third one from the left.

xmas nichols family circa 1965 (2)

so after owning a 1965 white mustang that my parents purchased for me at the age of 19ish (which i crashed a couple months later) and have stored for about 13 years with the intention of restoring it, i have decided to give it away.  that's right.  i am giving it to my uncle.  he is a mechanic and i'm sure he can make better use of it than i ever did.
hubby pulled the car out of the garage and now it's sitting in our driveway since tuesday.  every time i see it, it makes me sad and brings back a lot of good and bad memories.  bad memories because of the accident, which was my fault.  good memories because it was my first car and i've always loved muscle cars.  i'm a tom boy that way.  one day i hope to own a 1971 chevy white el camino.  my father got the body fixed but it was never right after that and it will never be the same.  i loved that car but we never made any time nor saved enough money to restore it or even get it running.  numerous people have asked me to sell it to them and i've always said no because i've always wanted to restore it and it was my baby.  hubby tried to convince me a million times and i always said no.

the end is almost near....well, at least for my car in my life.  t has rented a trailer and we are towing it to my uncle this saturday.  i am somewhat glad we are getting rid of it... *sigh*  t has a 1968 convertible vett that is not running, needs some work but not much.  he's always said he is going to start working on it but he never does.  perhaps now he will.

i think i finally made the decision to get rid of it because it's been 13 years (as long as i've been married) obviously i'm not going to restore it, plus have i mentioned how much i struggle with going to the y to work out after i get off of work?  ugh, i just cannot stand it.  it's been over a year and i still dislike going.  i can tolerate the working out part because i can see the results but the actual part of getting ready to go, i just cannot stand!  my solution is to purchase a treadmill and put it where my mustang use to  be and now i can work out at home.  there.  problem solved.

photos to follow.