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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
What are you going to do with the truck after that?
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I'm a sentimental fool, so if left to me I'd drive her whenever I could get away with it, until grandmother dies, and then assume ownership. Then I'd add her to my collection of too many vehicles.
I learned recently that I've got a 25% stake in the estate, which I never thought about. Always wanted to make my own way, but honored to be trusted with such a gift.
My wife has memories of grandfather picking us up, and she cramming into the jump seat at 6'1" tall. I'm 6'2" and have plenty of memories on that jump seat. I'm thankful she got to meet him, but only sad my firstborn never met. Grandfather wasn't an especially warm man, and based on the lack of talk from his offspring not an honorable person, but I only know him as generous, intelligent, fair, and expecting excellence.
For some reason things mark important life events for me, and letting go of those things is akin to letting go of those memories.
At any rate, the truck I could barely convince the girl take a ride with me in is now an object she requests. There will be more rides in the old truck, we will discover the classics, and the legacy will go forth into the future.