Yesterday I went out to the garage, took off the car covered and woke my DeLorean out of her winter hibernation on the first crank. It was time to pay homage to the man who meant so much to me in my life. I roared up the Ohio Turnpike and the car ran like it had never been put away for the winter. I met Shannon Yocom, Josh Haldeman and Patrick in Toledo. As we screamed up I-75 doing 70mph (Shannon has a lead foot:-) My car started to jerk, sputter and then stalled. I was very lucky not to get hit by the traffic as I made my way to the side of the hwy and an exit ramp but still very much near the roaring traffic. Now I'm absolutley no mechanic and I thought I'm in big trouble... I think God and JZD himself was smiling on me yesterday because just as I started to lift the louvres and contemplate what good that would do, out of the driving, blowing snowy rain came a blue-green DMC-12 with New Jersey plates, It was Rob Grady who was about 3 mins behind us but never knew it! I thought I was gonna cry..Rob immediately looked at the engine pushing on this pulling on that and then asked "Have you gotten gas lately"? I had, on the Turnpike. "I think you have water in the fuel". Rob got the car started and everyone followed me until we found a gas station which wasn't easy as my car would stall out every 10-15 miles on a very wet, windy snowy-rainy I-75 and Everytime the car stopped so did everyone else, they all stayed with me until it finally straightened out which put us all 1 1/2 hr later than planned to the funeral home. I hope John knows that not only did he build his dream car for us to enjoy, he also built a Brother/Sisterhood the likes I had never seen but experienced firsthand yesterday AND when I bought my car back in 2001 when Tom Wilke and Rick Myosky worked on my car many times and wouldn't take a nickle for it. Same to Shannon Yocom and Joe O'Brien who adjusted my torsion bars and had fun doing it. I could go on and on. Thank You again to everyone for all your help yesterday so I could be there to pay homage to my Mentor and Inspiration. AND to Rob Grady, it was really nice to finally get to meet YOU! Chuck Darling DCO Vin #6125 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/