Sunday, December 7, 2008

kinda a gearhead




Will's Bomp (grandpa) is restoring his dad's old 1941 Ford truck.
He is not the world's best handy man nor has he ever worked on car.
We were all sure that the truck would get put
in it's garage never to be heard from again.
We have been proven wrong.
He works on it all the time and has it completely taken apart.
We have been going down on Sunday to take updated pictures.
Will doesn't care much about the car but runs around
like a crazy person with this stool he found.
The car is stored in a garage in a sketchy alley in downtown Tacoma.
The guys who hang out down there drink Milwaukees Best Ice
and one of them owns a suped up hearse.
I am sure the surfaces are covered with lead paint remnants and
the "sign" on the door (it's really just sharpie marker)
is so vulgar I was embarassed to read it with my family there.
For health reasons I don't know if Will should hang out there
with Bomp all the time but it is definitely one of those places
where classic great (and crazy) grandpa memories will be made.
And hopefully Will will have a really cool truck to drive to prom!

1 comment:

Jess said...

Either that or he can ask to borrow the hearse.