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airehead
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 Posted: 04/10/06 - 19:40 Post subject: With friends like these...
wow. 
| Quote: | U.S. Soldier Gets the Surprise of His Life
Good friends are priceless. Spc. Bob Metcalf, an Indiana National Guard soldier who spent a year in Mosul, Iraq, knows this firsthand. During his homecoming he was greeted with a new car--but one unlike any other.
Long ago, Metcalf, 39, purchased a rusted 1967 Plymouth Barracuda that he planned to fix up someday. While he was off fighting for his country, his friends back home secretly did all the work and came up with the needed cash for parts, transforming that junk heap into a deep blue, chrome-trimmed car lover's dream, reports The Associated Press. They called the project "one soldier's dream."
To present the car to him last month, Metcalf's buddies invited him to the Cavalcade of Wheels auto show in South Bend, Ind. The shiny car that now sports red and white stripes was under a spotlight. That was when they sprung the surprise and told him the car was his old Barracuda. "I don't believe it. This is incredible," he said as a crowd of dozens of volunteers and cameras watched him. They gave him the keys and told him to start the engine--a hot-rodded Chrysler 318 V-8. |
Picture here!
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 19:51 Post subject:
Wow, sweet! 
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robp
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:14 Post subject:
He has excellent taste in cars and friends obviously! Although it would've been even bettah if they could found somebody to donate a '67-71 340 engine for the 'Cuda.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:17 Post subject:
they pimped his ride!!
nice going.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:17 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Wow, sweet! |
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mrbill
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:25 Post subject:
SaWeet
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:29 Post subject:
Yeah, but now he doesn't get to build it. 
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j1miller
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Posted: 04/10/06 - 21:33 Post subject:
I had heard about this.
Great and totally awesome!
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