so long old friend

on saturday morning at 8:43 am "the flesh" (my 1979 mercury zephyr) was donated to the Kidney foundation and towed away. as i watched it being strapped onto the tow truck i started to remember all of the great times i had in my first car...(insert little bubble cloud and "memory" music here). it was probably the 5th time driving it, and i got a flat tire, and then 3 days later the another tire blew out...that was fun. or when my mom had to drive it on HAFB and had all the guards give her weird looks...i wish i was there to see it. oh i could go on, and on, and on...
the zephyr has many traits that will stay with me forever. how about the name--the flesh--where did it come from you ask. well think about it...what color is the zephyr? and there you go. "the flesh" has, and always will be the perfect name.
or how about the noise it makes when you start it up, drive it around, or just look at it in general. some people may have hated the noise (like our neighbors...), but i saw it as a mighty beast waking up and ready for anything that came his way.
another trait would be the trunk. the trunk is so big that when my friends and i would go bouldering we took my car because it was the only one that could fit the "crash pad." i always said that i could fit 4 dead bodies in there if i needed too.
i might've been the only teenager that actually knew what an 8-track player was because my car had one. that's right, an actual 8-track...good times.
finally, the horn. it's a little lever that you push in, and it makes the most pathetic sound you have ever heard. the only time i used my horn was when we drove the flesh in the 4th of july parade last year in huntsville. if you were not at the parade to see all 9 of us stuffed into my car, than you definitely missed out...
so as i was saying, "the flesh" is no longer with us. some say it is a legend that will be known with little whispers around the corner of the globe, but all i know is when it was being towed away it was an amazing sight; like a triumphant warrior wounded from a long and hard battle. so long friend. you will be missed.
that is all.