Jake had been on Craigslist and other classified websites in search of a project truck or car. He had looked at several only to be junk. I told him to ask his friend Nate S, who runs a mechanic shop in Dayton to see if he knows anyone that has what he is looking for. It was meant to be. Nate told him about Andy R, who is the husband of a co-worker that I used to work with at Fort Dodge Animal Heath. They live only a few miles away. Many of the other vehicles Jake wanted to seek out where on the other side of the state. I went with Jake one very cold winter night to look at the car. Andy and Jake talked for an hour outside in the bitter cold. It turned out to be the car Jake wanted and within a month it was his. Jake paid $2500 of his own earned money. Andy had put around $4000 into it before he let it sit for the past 4 years. He told Jake before he took it home, he would take it to Nate and get it running before Jake gave him the check. That was very kind of him to put in more money before selling it. Jake was beaming with excitement before it was even his. He had to show us and his friends pictures and drove over to see it a few times. It is a 1979 Silver Bullet Cutlass Oldsmobile. It will be fun to see what Jake can do with it.
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