Yesterday… All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away

Yesterday… All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away was Originally Posted on September 10, 2003 by lavarock

Speaking of troubles, My friend Gary was supposed to be by here yesterday to help me get my old Camaro running so I could sell it. Some kind of “golf emergency” came up I think We [i]should[/i] be working on it today. Seems that days before I was ready to sell it, the fuel pump went out

Over the years I have owned my share of Camaros. I got my 1st (a 1967 model) in 1969, and my college buddies taught me how to drive. Then I traded that in for a 1976 model, then upgraded to a 1982 and 85 IROC and finally, this 1990 IROC. For quite some time I owned both the 85 and the 90 IROC’s! Life was SWEET!

When I got into gold prospecting I bought a supplimental vehicle, a Honda Passport, so I wouldn’t destroy the Camaro driving through streams and so on. Somehow, the thought of carrying buckets of dirt in the trunk of the Camaro did not sit well with me That Passport became my primary vehicle and the Camaro sat in the garage for quite some time. It was too easy to get tickets with it, what with all the interstates here!

This move will mark the end of an era. Since 1969 I have owned a Camaro of one type or another and now will be “Camaro-less”. This one does 0-60 mph in something like 5.5 seconds which means that even on an island the size of the Big Island, about 3 seconds into that acceleration would put me into the Pacific!

On the farm I will no doubt need a truck or 4-wheel drive vehicle as I expect to have to pull down a tree or two and also carry fertilizer and supplies all over the place. That vehicle may or may not be the same one I drive around the island. Gas prices there are guite high, but I can save a lot by buying gas at COSTCO, the warehouse club in the Kona.