[David Jones]

I did this about 10 years ago and there were some good ones.

I’ve been well blessed. The GTO has been fairly reliable.

About 10 years ago I was enjoying a little chemo for B cell non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I wasn’t driving the car that much and had an opportunity to drive it across town to drop my youngest off at baseball practice. It was dark and the car ran well over and to within a few blocks of the house. Coming down Forest Road, one of the 2 lanes through Pleasant Grove, running about the 45mph speed limit, the engine just shut off. Dead. Silence. At that time I had a Turbo 400, so I slipped it into neutral and managed to coast to the entrance to my neighborhood and pulled over. I looked around with my flashlight but the energy level was low. I walked the 4ish blocks home. I coached the wife into pulling it home with the truck while I steered the car and I parked it in front of the house....which is downhill just enough to coast me into the driveway. I remember sending the wife in while I unhooked the rope from the GTO. I just laid in the road for a bit. Later the boys came home and I coasted the car close to the basement and then we pushed it in. I forget how long, but some days later I found a wire had gotten on the headers and shorted itself apart. I still didn’t have enough energy to fix it but I knew what had happened.