Well this sucks ;

We said our final good byes to Wally Escherich to - day, he was a die hard GearHead and good guy who we lost to some nasty disease before he turned 60 .

Wally was not only a GearHead but a Mechanic and an honest one to boot .

He loved his weird French Citroens and all station wagons, I met him long ago on a road rally, we were both driving some screwy foreign cars no one else cared about, he'd catch up to me at the food & gas stops or the hotel at end of day and swap bench / shop stores as we tinkered other driver's cars back to health for the next day .

For many year Wally'd tell me ' I want to ride with you sometime to see how you go so fast in those jalopies of yours' (I don't actually go fast, I drive quickly, a very different thing) but it never quite happened, we were both always busy with life, raising a family and so on...... he only lived a hour or more East of me but I never quite made it out that way and now he's gone forever .

Don't wit to long to go see those who you enjoy spending time with, to - morrow may never come .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better