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Back a little while ago - a few years - I had just gotten the GTX back from a total ground up restoration done up in my home state of Minnesota then shipped out to me to begin having fun with again. I had owned the 68 for 48 years. Well when I got it back fellow GTX lover Roger Kiwi Lang sent me a little gift just off the cuff. It was a little cast hot wheels replica of my car - all legit save the 6 pack hood I had on mine. This gift you must know if you know Kiwi came from his collection all the way from Kiwiland - New Zealand. Well I just thought that was he nicest thing and even kept it in the cars for others to notice. About 3 years on from that for some reason after all those years of owning my very first car I decided it was time to sell. Never really considered it before - but when the time came there was really only one person I wanted to sell it to. One of my very best life long friends that had coveted the GTX for all the years I owned it - and had made offers before but clearly under the market. I knew he could never afford it. That is unless I was willing to come way down. When I finally made the decision I called him and said “here’s your one chance”. The cars yours for what you offered me several years ago if you still up for it” Well he about peed his pants and the car was in his garage fromCA to MNin about 3 weeks. He hadn’t even told his wife. I had given him everything having to do with the GTX - including mini GTX
So to make a long story longer he worshipped that car as he had since we were kids. Then something big happened during all that craziness going on in Mpls during the “Summer of Love” or St George (Floyd) revealed his holy self to us. I’ll let my friend tell that story. Bottom line is that mini GTX disappeared. You would’t think that would have that big of an effect on my friend unless you knew the whole story. So hear we are a year 1/2 later and along comes Good Guy Roger Kiwi Lang - and again all the way from Kiwiland New Zealand he sends another exact replica of the GTX to give my friend when I go up to Mpls for Christmas in a couple of weeks. You have to know my friend and his son scoured the land to find a replacement for that replica. Could not find one. This will absolutely make his Christmas. It will be a big thing for him to get that small thing back.
And to Good Guy Roger Kiwi Lang I say hear hear and a few pints of whatever beer you drink as Good Guy of the Year.
Just more proof that FBBO Guys are truly the best and take care of their own.
So to make a long story longer he worshipped that car as he had since we were kids. Then something big happened during all that craziness going on in Mpls during the “Summer of Love” or St George (Floyd) revealed his holy self to us. I’ll let my friend tell that story. Bottom line is that mini GTX disappeared. You would’t think that would have that big of an effect on my friend unless you knew the whole story. So hear we are a year 1/2 later and along comes Good Guy Roger Kiwi Lang - and again all the way from Kiwiland New Zealand he sends another exact replica of the GTX to give my friend when I go up to Mpls for Christmas in a couple of weeks. You have to know my friend and his son scoured the land to find a replacement for that replica. Could not find one. This will absolutely make his Christmas. It will be a big thing for him to get that small thing back.
And to Good Guy Roger Kiwi Lang I say hear hear and a few pints of whatever beer you drink as Good Guy of the Year.
Just more proof that FBBO Guys are truly the best and take care of their own.