October 1, 2025 • 20 mins
Amanda and Chris on the years-long search for their father's 1985 Dodge Ramcharger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Chris, good morning. Hey, how are you Chris good?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How are you doing Elliott?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I am doing great? Thank you. Chris sent me an
email and I wanted to track Chris Darren. Chris, are
you buy your sofa? Is there anybody with you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My sister Amanda's here?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh? Hey, Amanda, how are you good? The I love well.
First of all, thank you very much for email. And
I think it was very nice that that you shared
the story number one, number two. I love the story. Chris.
Would you give a thumbnail real quickly of what the
story is?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, So this past weekend, we went out to my
dad's house for his birthday, all my siblings and my
dad's grand child and all our kids, and my sister has,
like you said, long story short, my sister's been kind
of looking for his truck that he sold twenty two
(00:57):
years ago. My dad's been in poor health recently, and
and we've you know, as as uh as someone gets
closer to to that, you you know, live in live
in your memories and and you try to find fond
ways to remember them and stuff. And even though he's
still here with us, she's been looking for this truck,
and uh for I don't know what two years now. Uh,
(01:22):
and then she she kind of gave up on it
and lo and behold, Like a few days later, it
showed up on Facebook marketplace. She reached out to the
to the seller. They were gonna have someone come and
purchase it the next the next morning, and my sister said,
hold on just one second, I've got to be out
there this evening, cash in hand. And she got it,
(01:44):
and uh, we brought it over to my dad's house
and got it fired up for him, and it was
it was a pretty pretty awesome, pretty awesome time.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Okay, so let's back up a little bit. Let's back
up a little bit. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry that
your dad is in is in failing health. But let's
back up for a second. So how the truck and
the pictures are unbelievable? How old is that truck?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it's in eighty five two years old? Yeah,
forty two years old.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So the truck is forty two years old. And when, Amanda,
when did when did your dad originally get rid of
the truck?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It was two thousand and three, it was right after
I graduated high school. My oldest brother, who's two years
younger than me, was the junior in high school. And yeah,
so he sold it, yeah, like twenty two years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So to me, because when you say that Amanda started
looking for the truck two years ago, you think like, oh, well,
her dad must have just sold the truck and now
she's looking for it. Oh no, no, no, the truck
has been gone for twenty some odd years. The hunt
to find it has taken two years. Yeah, and what
(03:03):
is isn't there like aren't there a bunch of crazy
stories about how like you were you checking all the
time to try to find Well, first of all, let's
back up. Your memories of the truck are are just
rooted in like just being there with your dad.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, so my parents divorced in like ninety four when
I was ten, and they lived kind of far apart.
So like a lot of my memories of like having
like quality moments with my dad, we're in this truck.
I was the oldest and the only girl, so I
got to set up front and we paid trips to
the beach and drive out organ and letin Hatteris. So
(03:46):
just like a lot of really fond memories. I loved
this truck and kind of wanted a vehicle to have
of my own that I could put out on the
beach instead of like my daily driver. So I just thought, like,
what better to find the truck that like is just
like rooted in all these like really amazing memories with
(04:07):
my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Amanda, you wrote something. You wrote something that made me
laugh where you were like the sound of that engine.
When you were a young girl, you were like, oh,
Dad's home. And then later when you were a teenager
and you heard the engine, you were like, oh no,
Dad's home.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah yeah, hide this stuff, like get straight.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was like, uh but you mean you can hear
it coming like literally a mile away, So like the excitement,
Like on Fridays when I was a kid, he come
home with like a dollar for our allowance and some eminems.
But then as a teenager, it was like, oh crap,
like let me spray some perfume, like let me hi,
hi run you know that thing. So but yeah, I
could always like tell he was coming home. So like
(04:51):
firing it up at his birthday was like monumental because
it's like, oh, Dad's home.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But I'm thirty six years old and I have memories
of like barely being able to climb into it because
it was so tall, you know, to me, and you know,
I was I must have been seven or eight, maybe
nine years old, trying to climb into that thing, my
dad taking us hunting in it and using the CD
radio and you know, just failing on top of the
world because it was so big. And uh, it's just
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it's just a it's just a bad, bad a truck.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, I was gonna say, I think I think there's
part of what I was reading where Amanda said, like,
in addition to like oh Dad's home and oh God,
Dad's home, is like having to pick like you said
you were the only girl, of having to pick your
brothers up so that they could even just get into
the truck like it was. It's just the whole truck
is wrapped up in memories of your dad and you're
(05:43):
in your family. Now I am looking at a picture
of the uh of of the truck, Amanda, you're standing.
It looks like it's on a trailer and you're you're
standing in front by the way. Not not relevant to
the story at all, but what whoever did the inkwork
on your arm did a fantastic job. Not related to
the story, but what is the It's a got a
(06:07):
very unique coloring to the exterior of the truck.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, which I'm so thankful no one painted it because
like I saw the picture that was the very first picture,
and the post doesn't for me look like my dad's
truck because of the angle of it, because I remember
the truck being like lifted. But seeing the yellow primer
was like I immediately got goose bumps. I was like,
(06:32):
get out of here, this is this is gonna be it,
and like scroll through and just like every picture like
confirming in my head, Oh my god, it actually just
found this truck and like immediately start bawling because I'm like,
I know this is it. I call my dad. I'm
seeing him pictures like look, can you confirm, like send
it to my oldest brother. He's like, oh, for sure,
(06:53):
that's it. Like here's where dad hunting buddy like ran
into excuse me, squlid into it. It was a muddy
day and like being the chrome on the well real
tail light. So yeah, that primer he like never got
it painted after it was in an accident in nineteen
(07:13):
ninety three, so kind of turned into the hunting truck.
But my goal is definitely to get it painted and
back to its original like royal blue.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey, quick question, the person who slid into the truck
is that Mike's space?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, okay, yeah. I just want to make sure because
in one of the things, I was like, oh, this
is one hundred percent is this is where Mike' space
ran right into the truck.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ran right in?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Hey? So yeah, Amanda, I want to ask you a
couple of other things real quickly. Is in the in well,
so two years of hunting for the truck? Was it ever?
Was it ever? Like, I mean, the truck's been gone for,
like you said, twenty some odd years. It's kind of
a needle in a haystack? How did you even did
(08:00):
you even come across it? I wouldn't even know how to, Like,
for example, if I went, if I went hunting for
a car from twenty three years ago, I wouldn't even
know where to start to try to find it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, honestly, I just knew that my dad sold it
to someone who lived in Palatan. My dad's in Palatan.
So I'm like, if the truck is still around, it
could be really close. And so I'd asked my dad
several times like do you have anything that have the
vent on it so that I could like do a
search to see if it's been junked. But I and
(08:36):
I've asked my mom too, like hey, were you on
the loan like or you know the insurance policy you
had back in that time. But I never got the vent,
and I also was kind of scared, like I don't
want to put the vent out there. I'd rather have
the hope that I can find it than to know
that it's in the junk yard and gone or scrapped
(08:56):
or whatever. But just I don't know. I just kind
of just felt like if it's out there, like I
gotta find it, and if I don't, I don't. But
Marketplace is uh, like there's so many vehicles that pop
up on there, and so I was just kind of
like if it, if it's out there, this is where
(09:17):
it's gonna be. So I would just, you know, in
this moment where I'm like kind of sad and like
think about my dad, I would just get on there
search for the specific truck and then just do like
open searches. And I've come across a ton of them
and like kind of thinking like, oh, maybe this is
it somebody painted it, and then I thought, maybe I'll
just get one that's close enough to it. And I've
(09:38):
come across some with like the red interior and I'm like, no,
absolutely refuse, Like it has to have the blue interior.
Like I remember that was like a very like that
was a project my dad did, was to paint the interior.
And he's always been very like meticulous with like the
cleanliness of his vehicles. Even though the outside.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Of that one.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That sense about your dad at all, you.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Don't get that vibe. But I don't know, I just
kind of it was just like a prayer of hope,
like trying to just I don't know, didn't you kind
of have faith that to find it?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And so last couple of things, the when when you
went and got the So you do you end up
finding the truck on marketplace when you went to get
When you went to get the truck, I'm assuming it's
not the same person that your dad sold it to, right, correct?
How many do you have any idea how many times
this truck changed hands?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I want to say they were maybe the third or fourth.
I tried to ask them some questions, but it was
like kind of late at night and I'm there with
two other people, so you just like get this thing
and don't go on. But like wasn't really receptive to,
like me having like a sit down chat about it.
But I'm pretty sure it was either as the third owner,
(10:56):
and then it's it was an Amelia, which is like
literally twenty eight minutes from my dad's house, so it's
like in his backyard.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Basically that four owners and not one person was like,
I'll paint it. I'll just leave it. I'll just leave it.
Prime that's fine. Hey, so Amanda, you get the you
get the truck, and you you bring it back and
it's I'll tell you this, I'm not a like I'm
I'm not a person that would normally believe in the
(11:24):
next part of this story. But when you start reading
about I guess God's winks, which is I had never
heard of that phrase at all.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Me either.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's kind of like it's it's kind of meant to be.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, it's really special. Like I I still like kind
of cry over it, like I'm still like kind of
in shock and just really I don't know, will you explain?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Will you explain what the what the God's winks are?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So I get it home and get inside and looking
through the interior to see like what kind of condition
it is, and it's pretty moldy and musty. But I
noticed that there's a pearl earring stuck in the passenger
the visor, which pearls are my birth stone, and my
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grandmother gave me two pearl rings as a child for
when she passed. So seeing that, I'm like, just get
out of here, like there's no way that that's a
pearl earring literally stuck dead center of the visor of
the s feet that I spent my childhood in, but
sure enough it's there. And then finding like an old
(12:41):
dash odometer that's got like seven zero six six seven.
My data birth is six seven, so like those are
my numbers, I say, like my good luck numbers. So
just these like little confirmations that like there's no way.
And then I open up the center console and there's
like State Fair tickets from two thousand and five and
September twenty second is the first date, which is my
(13:04):
dad's birthday.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
So see what I mean, Like I hear all of that,
I know, and I want to go, oh, get out
of here, but you can't, Like you see that now
go like it's it's it's almost too what it's all
I mean, I love.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Again, I love the story, but that that that just
doesn't it's nothing. Is that coincidental?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Right? I mean it gives me goosebumps, and like I
just feel like, you know, meant to be and just
like I don't know, I try to stay positive and
always be kind to like I feel that, you know,
in doing those things, you know, maybe it can bring
me good fortune, and so I just I don't know,
I just like I cling to those things, especially around
(13:50):
like the health of my dad and knowing that, like
you know, his time is limited.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So I don't know, Hey, when you guys got to it,
when you got to the when you got the truck
to the house over the weekend, what what was it?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Like, I mean, so my dad hasn't been out of
his house except for maybe a handful of times in
the last nine months or so, so like having him
sitting on the porch looking at the truck, I don't
I honestly don't know that my dad really understood like
(14:26):
the magnitude of this. And also like I feel like
he was maybe kind of like that can't be it
like that can't be right, Like I think he understands
the time of things more. I feel like this truck
has only been gone a few years, Like it doesn't
seem like twenty two years have gone by. But I
pulled out like his radio. He's like, I can have
(14:46):
radio and there I pulled it out and hated it
to him.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He goes, oh, yeah, that's my radio.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I was like, yeah, dad, that this is the truck man.
And so he's just like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They fired it up, they fixed it up, fired it
up right in the yard from him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That Like I had to kind of separate myself, like
I'm taking a video kind of going crazy. But while
they're like working on it to get it fired up,
I'm like searching in his toolbox, like I'm gonna find
the emblems because he took those off, like the badges,
And I was like, I gotta keep myself busy otherwise
I'm just gonna be like a mess.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Hey, Chris, let me let me ask you this when
when when like, was your dad like was the truck
outside and you brought your dad out, or was your
dad like sitting out while you guys pulled up.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So yeah, he's not able to gather. Well, he's able to,
but he hasn't got like she said, it hadn't gotten
out in a while. But yeah, they they got him
outside after working on it for for an hour or
two in the in the front yard with my brother
and Amanda's boyfriend and and then yeah, they got him
out there and witnessed the spectacle of them them firing up. Man,
(15:54):
it was. It's awesome. It's a good it's a good
sounding truck too. You would love it, Elliott. The I mean,
I listen, flow matter exhausts and.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, yeah, buddy, and I will say this and like
this is like like like saying the ugly dog is cute.
The truck is beautiful. But I think part of it
is the story that goes with it makes that truck gorgeous,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I mean it
really is awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to fight my oldest brother, Like
I'm pretty sure in his mind he's he's like, duck
my truck.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But hey, did your dad at any point say anything
to you guys, like listen, I have kids, right, if
if I found out my kids did anything even close
to this for me, No, no, I mean what I mean,
you want to you want to know whether or not
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your kids love you, Like that is just what you
guys went through to to find that truck. What an
amazing showing of love for your dad. Like it really
is a beautiful love story.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, he said, uh so when well to my oldest
brother when he was leaving, He's like, buddy, I'm gonna
be up and walking soon. And then like when I
was leaving, he was like opening those curtains so I
can see it going down the road and this was
like this is amazing, like just it brought him such joy.
(17:25):
He called me the very next morning. I was just
like kind of choked up and just saying that like
yesterday was like the best day he'd ever had, and
that he uh it was the best birthday and just.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. I thought you were going
to say he was like, you know what's going to
your brother right? No.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, but he texted me when I got it home
and said, man, that's a great birthday present. I said,
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That like, I mean, well, I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I am so glad. I don't know what made you
send the story to us but I love the story,
I really do. I think everything about the story is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yea, Alie, I know, I know you love stories with
vehicles and new to me vehicles, but this one not
really new to us, but it's come back around and
I just figured that we would love to share it
with you if you would hear it out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, I think it's great. Hey, Chris, Amanda, I appreciate it.
Hold on one second. Let me make sure I have
your info in case I need you down the road.
But hold on one second for me, all right, you
and love you too. You got it? Hold on one
second for me, please. Isn't that the greatest? That's so cool?
Isn't that the greatest?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Maybe they've gotten use to telling the story because hearing
it for the first time is quite like, I can't
stop crying.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I loved yet. It really is a beautiful, beautiful story
that's just wrapped around this old truck. But man, is
that awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And the fact that she was looking for it for
like two years and then she was like, now let
me just go look again, you know, but by the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Way, two years, I'm sure when you're in the middle
of doing it, every day seems like a long time.
The truck's been gone for twenty three years. Twenty three years, now,
that is a long time. I wouldn't even know where
to That's why. Like when you hear the story of
like I was looking for two years, Yeah, it doesn't
(19:27):
seem that long. The car has been out of their family,
and like she said, switched hands. It didn't even dawn
on me, like that truck could have been scrapped easily,
like this is forty two year old truck. Yeah, so
I mean that truck could have been that truck could
have been burnt out, scrapyarded, anything.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Right, So when she's using searching for in a marketplace
or wherever else she used as a resource for two years,
and yes, there may have been sounded like some therapy
and just feeling sad and trying to remember these more
beautiful moments from her childhood. You are in the back
of your head struggling with the idea that you you
may be on a fool's Errand.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, yes, like for example, I would never The only
card that I can attach to my dad was the
stupid pougo that we had that we drove from Houston
to Montreal all in back. That was a great drive.
The I wouldn't even know where to start to look
for it. Yeah, and by the way, I'm not saying
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that like, oh, guess what I'm getting ready to do,
because you do. You do hear Chris and Amanda story
and it does make you want to go like I
want to. I want to find something like it's pretty special.
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Maybe not you, but Manitoba, Mike, are you listening? Sounds
like another challenge.
Hey, Chris, good morning. Hey, how are you Chris good?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How are you doing Elliott?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I am doing great? Thank you. Chris sent me an
email and I wanted to track Chris Darren. Chris, are
you buy your sofa? Is there anybody with you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My sister Amanda's here?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh? Hey, Amanda, how are you good? The I love well.
First of all, thank you very much for email. And
I think it was very nice that that you shared
the story number one, number two. I love the story. Chris.
Would you give a thumbnail real quickly of what the
story is?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, So this past weekend, we went out to my
dad's house for his birthday, all my siblings and my
dad's grand child and all our kids, and my sister has,
like you said, long story short, my sister's been kind
of looking for his truck that he sold twenty two
(00:57):
years ago. My dad's been in poor health recently, and
and we've you know, as as uh as someone gets
closer to to that, you you know, live in live
in your memories and and you try to find fond
ways to remember them and stuff. And even though he's
still here with us, she's been looking for this truck,
and uh for I don't know what two years now. Uh,
(01:22):
and then she she kind of gave up on it
and lo and behold, Like a few days later, it
showed up on Facebook marketplace. She reached out to the
to the seller. They were gonna have someone come and
purchase it the next the next morning, and my sister said,
hold on just one second, I've got to be out
there this evening, cash in hand. And she got it,
(01:44):
and uh, we brought it over to my dad's house
and got it fired up for him, and it was
it was a pretty pretty awesome, pretty awesome time.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Okay, so let's back up a little bit. Let's back
up a little bit. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry that
your dad is in is in failing health. But let's
back up for a second. So how the truck and
the pictures are unbelievable? How old is that truck?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it's in eighty five two years old? Yeah,
forty two years old.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So the truck is forty two years old. And when, Amanda,
when did when did your dad originally get rid of
the truck?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It was two thousand and three, it was right after
I graduated high school. My oldest brother, who's two years
younger than me, was the junior in high school. And yeah,
so he sold it, yeah, like twenty two years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So to me, because when you say that Amanda started
looking for the truck two years ago, you think like, oh, well,
her dad must have just sold the truck and now
she's looking for it. Oh no, no, no, the truck
has been gone for twenty some odd years. The hunt
to find it has taken two years. Yeah, and what
(03:03):
is isn't there like aren't there a bunch of crazy
stories about how like you were you checking all the
time to try to find Well, first of all, let's
back up. Your memories of the truck are are just
rooted in like just being there with your dad.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, so my parents divorced in like ninety four when
I was ten, and they lived kind of far apart.
So like a lot of my memories of like having
like quality moments with my dad, we're in this truck.
I was the oldest and the only girl, so I
got to set up front and we paid trips to
the beach and drive out organ and letin Hatteris. So
(03:46):
just like a lot of really fond memories. I loved
this truck and kind of wanted a vehicle to have
of my own that I could put out on the
beach instead of like my daily driver. So I just thought, like,
what better to find the truck that like is just
like rooted in all these like really amazing memories with
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my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Amanda, you wrote something. You wrote something that made me
laugh where you were like the sound of that engine.
When you were a young girl, you were like, oh,
Dad's home. And then later when you were a teenager
and you heard the engine, you were like, oh no,
Dad's home.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah yeah, hide this stuff, like get straight.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was like, uh but you mean you can hear
it coming like literally a mile away, So like the excitement,
Like on Fridays when I was a kid, he come
home with like a dollar for our allowance and some eminems.
But then as a teenager, it was like, oh crap,
like let me spray some perfume, like let me hi,
hi run you know that thing. So but yeah, I
could always like tell he was coming home. So like
(04:51):
firing it up at his birthday was like monumental because
it's like, oh, Dad's home.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But I'm thirty six years old and I have memories
of like barely being able to climb into it because
it was so tall, you know, to me, and you know,
I was I must have been seven or eight, maybe
nine years old, trying to climb into that thing, my
dad taking us hunting in it and using the CD
radio and you know, just failing on top of the
world because it was so big. And uh, it's just
(05:17):
it's just a it's just a bad, bad a truck.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, I was gonna say, I think I think there's
part of what I was reading where Amanda said, like,
in addition to like oh Dad's home and oh God,
Dad's home, is like having to pick like you said
you were the only girl, of having to pick your
brothers up so that they could even just get into
the truck like it was. It's just the whole truck
is wrapped up in memories of your dad and you're
(05:43):
in your family. Now I am looking at a picture
of the uh of of the truck, Amanda, you're standing.
It looks like it's on a trailer and you're you're
standing in front by the way. Not not relevant to
the story at all, but what whoever did the inkwork
on your arm did a fantastic job. Not related to
the story, but what is the It's a got a
(06:07):
very unique coloring to the exterior of the truck.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, which I'm so thankful no one painted it because
like I saw the picture that was the very first picture,
and the post doesn't for me look like my dad's
truck because of the angle of it, because I remember
the truck being like lifted. But seeing the yellow primer
was like I immediately got goose bumps. I was like,
(06:32):
get out of here, this is this is gonna be it,
and like scroll through and just like every picture like
confirming in my head, Oh my god, it actually just
found this truck and like immediately start bawling because I'm like,
I know this is it. I call my dad. I'm
seeing him pictures like look, can you confirm, like send
it to my oldest brother. He's like, oh, for sure,
(06:53):
that's it. Like here's where dad hunting buddy like ran
into excuse me, squlid into it. It was a muddy
day and like being the chrome on the well real
tail light. So yeah, that primer he like never got
it painted after it was in an accident in nineteen
(07:13):
ninety three, so kind of turned into the hunting truck.
But my goal is definitely to get it painted and
back to its original like royal blue.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey, quick question, the person who slid into the truck
is that Mike's space?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, okay, yeah. I just want to make sure because
in one of the things, I was like, oh, this
is one hundred percent is this is where Mike' space
ran right into the truck.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ran right in?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Hey? So yeah, Amanda, I want to ask you a
couple of other things real quickly. Is in the in well,
so two years of hunting for the truck? Was it ever?
Was it ever? Like, I mean, the truck's been gone for,
like you said, twenty some odd years. It's kind of
a needle in a haystack? How did you even did
(08:00):
you even come across it? I wouldn't even know how to, Like,
for example, if I went, if I went hunting for
a car from twenty three years ago, I wouldn't even
know where to start to try to find it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, honestly, I just knew that my dad sold it
to someone who lived in Palatan. My dad's in Palatan.
So I'm like, if the truck is still around, it
could be really close. And so I'd asked my dad
several times like do you have anything that have the
vent on it so that I could like do a
search to see if it's been junked. But I and
(08:36):
I've asked my mom too, like hey, were you on
the loan like or you know the insurance policy you
had back in that time. But I never got the vent,
and I also was kind of scared, like I don't
want to put the vent out there. I'd rather have
the hope that I can find it than to know
that it's in the junk yard and gone or scrapped
(08:56):
or whatever. But just I don't know. I just kind
of just felt like if it's out there, like I
gotta find it, and if I don't, I don't. But
Marketplace is uh, like there's so many vehicles that pop
up on there, and so I was just kind of
like if it, if it's out there, this is where
(09:17):
it's gonna be. So I would just, you know, in
this moment where I'm like kind of sad and like
think about my dad, I would just get on there
search for the specific truck and then just do like
open searches. And I've come across a ton of them
and like kind of thinking like, oh, maybe this is
it somebody painted it, and then I thought, maybe I'll
just get one that's close enough to it. And I've
(09:38):
come across some with like the red interior and I'm like, no,
absolutely refuse, Like it has to have the blue interior.
Like I remember that was like a very like that
was a project my dad did, was to paint the interior.
And he's always been very like meticulous with like the
cleanliness of his vehicles. Even though the outside.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Of that one.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That sense about your dad at all, you.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Don't get that vibe. But I don't know, I just
kind of it was just like a prayer of hope,
like trying to just I don't know, didn't you kind
of have faith that to find it?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And so last couple of things, the when when you
went and got the So you do you end up
finding the truck on marketplace when you went to get
When you went to get the truck, I'm assuming it's
not the same person that your dad sold it to, right, correct?
How many do you have any idea how many times
this truck changed hands?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I want to say they were maybe the third or fourth.
I tried to ask them some questions, but it was
like kind of late at night and I'm there with
two other people, so you just like get this thing
and don't go on. But like wasn't really receptive to,
like me having like a sit down chat about it.
But I'm pretty sure it was either as the third owner,
(10:56):
and then it's it was an Amelia, which is like
literally twenty eight minutes from my dad's house, so it's
like in his backyard.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Basically that four owners and not one person was like,
I'll paint it. I'll just leave it. I'll just leave it.
Prime that's fine. Hey, so Amanda, you get the you
get the truck, and you you bring it back and
it's I'll tell you this, I'm not a like I'm
I'm not a person that would normally believe in the
(11:24):
next part of this story. But when you start reading
about I guess God's winks, which is I had never
heard of that phrase at all.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Me either.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It's kind of like it's it's kind of meant to be.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, it's really special. Like I I still like kind
of cry over it, like I'm still like kind of
in shock and just really I don't know, will you explain?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Will you explain what the what the God's winks are?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So I get it home and get inside and looking
through the interior to see like what kind of condition
it is, and it's pretty moldy and musty. But I
noticed that there's a pearl earring stuck in the passenger
the visor, which pearls are my birth stone, and my
(12:18):
grandmother gave me two pearl rings as a child for
when she passed. So seeing that, I'm like, just get
out of here, like there's no way that that's a
pearl earring literally stuck dead center of the visor of
the s feet that I spent my childhood in, but
sure enough it's there. And then finding like an old
(12:41):
dash odometer that's got like seven zero six six seven.
My data birth is six seven, so like those are
my numbers, I say, like my good luck numbers. So
just these like little confirmations that like there's no way.
And then I open up the center console and there's
like State Fair tickets from two thousand and five and
September twenty second is the first date, which is my
(13:04):
dad's birthday.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
So see what I mean, Like I hear all of that,
I know, and I want to go, oh, get out
of here, but you can't, Like you see that now
go like it's it's it's almost too what it's all
I mean, I love.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Again, I love the story, but that that that just
doesn't it's nothing. Is that coincidental?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Right? I mean it gives me goosebumps, and like I
just feel like, you know, meant to be and just
like I don't know, I try to stay positive and
always be kind to like I feel that, you know,
in doing those things, you know, maybe it can bring
me good fortune, and so I just I don't know,
I just like I cling to those things, especially around
(13:50):
like the health of my dad and knowing that, like
you know, his time is limited.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So I don't know, Hey, when you guys got to it,
when you got to the when you got the truck
to the house over the weekend, what what was it?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Like, I mean, so my dad hasn't been out of
his house except for maybe a handful of times in
the last nine months or so, so like having him
sitting on the porch looking at the truck, I don't
I honestly don't know that my dad really understood like
(14:26):
the magnitude of this. And also like I feel like
he was maybe kind of like that can't be it
like that can't be right, Like I think he understands
the time of things more. I feel like this truck
has only been gone a few years, Like it doesn't
seem like twenty two years have gone by. But I
pulled out like his radio. He's like, I can have
(14:46):
radio and there I pulled it out and hated it
to him.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He goes, oh, yeah, that's my radio.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I was like, yeah, dad, that this is the truck man.
And so he's just like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They fired it up, they fixed it up, fired it
up right in the yard from him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That Like I had to kind of separate myself, like
I'm taking a video kind of going crazy. But while
they're like working on it to get it fired up,
I'm like searching in his toolbox, like I'm gonna find
the emblems because he took those off, like the badges,
And I was like, I gotta keep myself busy otherwise
I'm just gonna be like a mess.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Hey, Chris, let me let me ask you this when
when when like, was your dad like was the truck
outside and you brought your dad out, or was your
dad like sitting out while you guys pulled up.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So yeah, he's not able to gather. Well, he's able to,
but he hasn't got like she said, it hadn't gotten
out in a while. But yeah, they they got him
outside after working on it for for an hour or
two in the in the front yard with my brother
and Amanda's boyfriend and and then yeah, they got him
out there and witnessed the spectacle of them them firing up. Man,
(15:54):
it was. It's awesome. It's a good it's a good
sounding truck too. You would love it, Elliott. The I mean,
I listen, flow matter exhausts and.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, yeah, buddy, and I will say this and like
this is like like like saying the ugly dog is cute.
The truck is beautiful. But I think part of it
is the story that goes with it makes that truck gorgeous,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I mean it
really is awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to fight my oldest brother, Like
I'm pretty sure in his mind he's he's like, duck
my truck.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But hey, did your dad at any point say anything
to you guys, like listen, I have kids, right, if
if I found out my kids did anything even close
to this for me, No, no, I mean what I mean,
you want to you want to know whether or not
(16:50):
your kids love you, Like that is just what you
guys went through to to find that truck. What an
amazing showing of love for your dad. Like it really
is a beautiful love story.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, he said, uh so when well to my oldest
brother when he was leaving, He's like, buddy, I'm gonna
be up and walking soon. And then like when I
was leaving, he was like opening those curtains so I
can see it going down the road and this was
like this is amazing, like just it brought him such joy.
(17:25):
He called me the very next morning. I was just
like kind of choked up and just saying that like
yesterday was like the best day he'd ever had, and
that he uh it was the best birthday and just.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. I thought you were going
to say he was like, you know what's going to
your brother right? No.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, but he texted me when I got it home
and said, man, that's a great birthday present. I said,
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That like, I mean, well, I got to tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I am so glad. I don't know what made you
send the story to us but I love the story,
I really do. I think everything about the story is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yea, Alie, I know, I know you love stories with
vehicles and new to me vehicles, but this one not
really new to us, but it's come back around and
I just figured that we would love to share it
with you if you would hear it out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, I think it's great. Hey, Chris, Amanda, I appreciate it.
Hold on one second. Let me make sure I have
your info in case I need you down the road.
But hold on one second for me, all right, you
and love you too. You got it? Hold on one
second for me, please. Isn't that the greatest? That's so cool?
Isn't that the greatest?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Maybe they've gotten use to telling the story because hearing
it for the first time is quite like, I can't
stop crying.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I loved yet. It really is a beautiful, beautiful story
that's just wrapped around this old truck. But man, is
that awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And the fact that she was looking for it for
like two years and then she was like, now let
me just go look again, you know, but by the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Way, two years, I'm sure when you're in the middle
of doing it, every day seems like a long time.
The truck's been gone for twenty three years. Twenty three years, now,
that is a long time. I wouldn't even know where
to That's why. Like when you hear the story of
like I was looking for two years, Yeah, it doesn't
(19:27):
seem that long. The car has been out of their family,
and like she said, switched hands. It didn't even dawn
on me, like that truck could have been scrapped easily,
like this is forty two year old truck. Yeah, so
I mean that truck could have been that truck could
have been burnt out, scrapyarded, anything.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Right, So when she's using searching for in a marketplace
or wherever else she used as a resource for two years,
and yes, there may have been sounded like some therapy
and just feeling sad and trying to remember these more
beautiful moments from her childhood. You are in the back
of your head struggling with the idea that you you
may be on a fool's Errand.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, yes, like for example, I would never The only
card that I can attach to my dad was the
stupid pougo that we had that we drove from Houston
to Montreal all in back. That was a great drive.
The I wouldn't even know where to start to look
for it. Yeah, and by the way, I'm not saying
(20:27):
that like, oh, guess what I'm getting ready to do,
because you do. You do hear Chris and Amanda story
and it does make you want to go like I
want to. I want to find something like it's pretty special.
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Maybe not you, but Manitoba, Mike, are you listening? Sounds
like another challenge.
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