first time rear end swap

Great story. Sounds like you walked in at the right time. Also sounds like something a bunch of military guys will do. Anything to get the job done, only it didn't quite work out for them that time!

I was active duty Air Force stationed at Little Rock AFB. Not long after I started dating my current wife I bought an 84 Jeep CJ7. I spent a lot of time at the Auto Hobby shop. So one day, I'm at the Auto Hobby Shop working away on my Jeep and the guy working there yells, "Hey Trace, the Colonel is on the phone and wants to talk to you." I was a little freaked out so I ran to the phone and and said, Sergeant Trace. It was my girlfriend...

In the end he was right. I've been married to "the Colonel" for 18 years now!!




67Dart273 said
Great!!

Here's a true story from the old days at NAS Miramar.

The lot of the hobby shop was sloped in places, and the worthless teenager who worked in the tool room was supposed to filter people, IE tuneups or simple jobs could use the sloped stalls. He had given a "hilly" spot to some guys who rebuilt a Ford "Y" block, and............

One day I went out in the lot just in time to see a mess in "happening"

Guys had about a 59/60 Ford pickup were trying to put the engine trans back in. They had an over-extended cherry picker, had lost control, and I guess two of the guys on the back "for ballast" had stepped off.

I got there just in time to see the tail of the transmission stuck right through the windshield........and draining ATF all over the dash.

I was an ETR-2 GCA RADAR tech at Miramar from 70-74. Worked part time at the hobby shop.
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