This is a story I have told before but since I can not find it, I will do it again. If it doesn't resemble the first time, tough as I am old and suffer from "CRS" 
After I got out of the Marines in 1962, I went to work for GM in Pontiac Michigan. I was a young punk with all the answers but didn't have a clue to the questions.
I was getting a decent paycheck and like a wise young man, worried about my future, I bought a 58 Corvette! That thing was a beauty! White, fuel injected four on the floor convertible. I needed that thing like a possum needs a purse but I figured it was to be a real chick magnet. Course the fact that I was a cocky know-it-all helped offset the benefits of the Corvette.
I would tool around in that bad boy and really make a pain in the arse out of myself. Local cops watched me like a hawk. I would go out on Woodward, main road between Detroit and Pontiac, and drag race every time I could scrape up enough money for a tank of gas. I beat that poor thing to death!
There was a drive-in restaurant in our little town, outside of Pontiac. It was an A&W Root beer stand. It had a large parking lot and as you pulled into it, the stand was on your right and directly ahead of you, about a hundred feet or so and about 5 feet lower than the road, was an old roller rink. The rink had long closed and was, at the time of this story, used for boat storage. The thing was full of boats, which we could not see, but there was a row of boats about 10 of them, on trailers, looking right at you, with trailer toungs facing the lot. This way they could just back up to them and tow them off when they wanted.
My greatest day of fame happened in this lot.
I was in the evening on the Fourth of July, 1962. I sure remember that day!
This town I lived in, Keego Harbor Michigan, was a resort town and situated on Cass Lake, the largest lake in our county. There are numerous beaches on that lake, the largest of which is at Dodge Park. This is the park that I had my best day of detecting on, many years later.
The day had been just beautiful and the evening was warm. I was out tooling around in my Vette, just a lookin
After I got out of the Marines in 1962, I went to work for GM in Pontiac Michigan. I was a young punk with all the answers but didn't have a clue to the questions.
I was getting a decent paycheck and like a wise young man, worried about my future, I bought a 58 Corvette! That thing was a beauty! White, fuel injected four on the floor convertible. I needed that thing like a possum needs a purse but I figured it was to be a real chick magnet. Course the fact that I was a cocky know-it-all helped offset the benefits of the Corvette.
I would tool around in that bad boy and really make a pain in the arse out of myself. Local cops watched me like a hawk. I would go out on Woodward, main road between Detroit and Pontiac, and drag race every time I could scrape up enough money for a tank of gas. I beat that poor thing to death!
There was a drive-in restaurant in our little town, outside of Pontiac. It was an A&W Root beer stand. It had a large parking lot and as you pulled into it, the stand was on your right and directly ahead of you, about a hundred feet or so and about 5 feet lower than the road, was an old roller rink. The rink had long closed and was, at the time of this story, used for boat storage. The thing was full of boats, which we could not see, but there was a row of boats about 10 of them, on trailers, looking right at you, with trailer toungs facing the lot. This way they could just back up to them and tow them off when they wanted.
My greatest day of fame happened in this lot.
I was in the evening on the Fourth of July, 1962. I sure remember that day!
This town I lived in, Keego Harbor Michigan, was a resort town and situated on Cass Lake, the largest lake in our county. There are numerous beaches on that lake, the largest of which is at Dodge Park. This is the park that I had my best day of detecting on, many years later.
The day had been just beautiful and the evening was warm. I was out tooling around in my Vette, just a lookin
