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URL: http://riceornot.ricecop.com/?auto=97126
Submitted by: DiRF
Comments: 10  (Read/Post)     Favorites: 0  (View)
Submitted on: 01-02-2019
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Part of my dad's Northern Fleet.

- 2002 VW Cabrio
- 1997 Chrysler LHS (with recent paintjob)
- 2018 Nissan Murano Platinum
- 2015 BMW X1 xDrive35i

...more pictures to come, after I get a chance to breathe after work tomorrow.


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1-03-2019 @ 08:40:31 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
New lick 'o paint looks good on it: http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet02lhs.jpg
Interior not holding up too badly: http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet03lhs.jpg
...crazy to think it'll be eligible for antique-auto plates in 3 years. I still remember, vividly, the day my dad test drove it and bought it. Fuck I'm old.

...both have wood-trimmed, tan leather interiors and panoramic sunroofs, but they could not be more different in character: http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet04mur_x1.jpg

The 'flite isn't looking too good for itself: http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/north...motorcycles.jpg However, I helped my dad move the LHS to a storage garage he owns a few miles away, which will give him room to move the DeSoto to a more central location in this garage. He wants to tinker with it again. Get it running. (He recently got his '81 Corvette fully road worthy again, and he's got the "bug" now to do the same with the DeSoto... didn't get a good shot of the 'Vette, though.)


#2
1-03-2019 @ 08:47:07 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
95th Anniversary FXD Superglide. Last year of the Evo engine. Hasn't been ridden since my dad busted his knees really badly about 15 years ago :( http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet06harley.jpg

Same deal with the toaster-tank BMW... http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet07beemer.jpg

...speaking of feeling old, http://photo.ricecop.com/pics/northernfleet08rebel.jpg ...riding that bike now seems like a lifetime ago. The thing probably has less than 500 miles on it. Hell, probably less than 200.

Didn't snag any pictures of the '70 Caddy DeVille convertible. It resides in another storage garage a few miles away.


#3
1-03-2019 @ 10:48:46 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
And here I thought I had a handful with three worthless cars and a 14-foot sailboat I don't use.

#4
1-04-2019 @ 07:57:30 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
#3, With the exception of the DeSoto, all of his cars are roadworthy... and the DeSoto only needs a few parts replaced and a good service, and it'd be right as rain.

#5
6-22-2019 @ 10:35:37 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
...in other news, my dad now has an aggressive form of cancer. It was discovered last year as "early stage" and they started what is supposed to be a very effective treatment... but it didn't work. He's in extreme pain and they'll have to begin a drastic "battle plan" to combat the cancer. I'm... just at a fucking loss. I lost all my biological grandparents over a ~10 year period, 2000-2010... as tough as that was, I didn't think I'd be staring into the abyss of a parent facing a life-or-death struggle so soon after that. All I can do is play the waiting game and see how effective this new medical plan of attack is.

#6
6-23-2019 @ 06:49:31 PM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
#5, Yikes. :(

#7
5-25-2020 @ 06:18:34 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
Well... we're now at the end. Whether it's a matter of weeks or even days, it's inevitable now. I'm just... I'm just numb. I don't know how to feel anymore.

I'm absolutely shattered I wasn't able to visit him earlier this year when the pandemic brought the world to a halt... I can take solace that I got to see him last October in better times. He was still suffering, but he was still relatively himself.


#8
5-28-2020 @ 07:53:13 AM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
#7, He's gone.

#9
5-28-2020 @ 07:54:45 PM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
#8, Sorry to hear that. I lost my own father in 2004. It felt like I lost part of my own life.

#10
6-10-2021 @ 11:36:57 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
A year later and it still really, really hurts. Just a nagging emptiness. Come across thoughts, "Oh, dad would have loved to hear about this..." or "Man, dad probably would have loved that most recent Nascar race..." (He'd be thrilled that Kevin Harvick is having one helluva sucky year)

As for this fleet. Gone. My dad's wife has liquidated almost his entire PA car collection. We'll never see them ever again. The DeSoto, which had been in the family since late '57, is now in the hands of some random collector, apparently.


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