Reflecting back, a cheep car and a random website.

With some of the threads that have popped up lately it got me thinking.

This site and a cheep car pretty much changed my life.

Lets roll the clock back to 2008. Im in a good job just bought a house in my dream location, about to get married.

Life is good. Over night everything changed. I got in an argument with a coworker. Things went south, i lost my job, lost the love of my life, the housing market crashed and im broke. No job, no women and no idea what to do.

I owned one nice thing, a Toyota truck "rock crawler". I sold the truck to make the first payment on the house. The buyer a friend of mine is short 500 bucks of what im asking so he says. "You like projects right? I got a 71 dart, will you take it in trade for the 500?"

I agreed that if it would make it to my house id consider it.

Well it did. I had a big empty hole in the garage where my baby use to live so i took the car. I was before it all went bad a welder. I spent 500 bucks on a TIG off craigslist and went to work on the car.

I worked lots of shity jobs for low pay to keep the house, no one would hire me because of my past and it being a small town. I did my best to keep working on the car and not loose the house. Years go by and my pops needs help down in the bay area. I drive the dart (my only car) to the bay and take up a job doing carpentry while working on the dart and my dads 26T.

A few more years go by and a few car shows, im working on other people's cars and mine and pops cars.

The next thing you know, im telling my boss i need time off to work on cars.

Now im running my own fab shop.

Ive met lots of great folks and learned so much about mopars it crazy.

And to think back it all started with me getting some car i knew nothing about so i searched out websites and ended up here. In 2008....

I cant thank everyone enough for all the help over the years and it jist goes to show, you never know what life will bring.

Im not sure what the take away from this is but it blows my mind when i look back.

Thanks again to everyone and thank you for a great site that very well changed my life for the better.