Here’s the hard truth – dating a car enthusiast takes patience. The endless projects, the mountains of parts, the expensive experiments… it all adds up. But at the end of the day, our love for the automobile should be celebrated and supported, otherwise, the end result is inevitably tears. And that’s exactly what happened when one enthusiast’s Chevy Impala project car was secretly towed off by his unsympathetic girlfriend.
1967 Chevrolet Impala (note: only for illustration purposes)
This story of woe comes to us from reddit, as posted user Jimothyisyouruncle (let’s just call him Jim). According to the post, Jim bought a 1967 Chevy Impala four-door early last year, and, as is tradition, promptly disassembled it in his garage for a complete ground-up restoration.
Although Jim owns a 2.5-car garage, the new project took up all of it. Totally understandable, at least from an enthusiast’s point of view. After all, cars are complex machines, and they can take up a lot of space when torn down.
Unfortunately, Jim’s girlfriend at the time didn’t get it. After moving in and finding the entire garage filled with bits of Chevy Impala, she wanted the project gone so she could park her own ride in there. Jim, of course, refused. His house, his garage, his project car.
1967 Chevrolet Impala (note: only for illustration purposes)
That’s when things came to a head. After coming home from a business trip, Jim found the Chevy Impala gone, replaced by his girlfriend’s car in the garage.
Apparently, the girlfriend had hired some folks to haul his Chevy Impala project away, including the chassis, body, and all the parts, sending it to a scrapyard.
After devoting about a year and a half of work and $11,000 towards getting his Chevy Impala back on the road, Jim was fed up. The two broke up, and Jim even took his ex to court for towing away his car.
1967 Chevrolet Impala (note: only for illustration purposes)
Luckily, Jim ended up finding his car at a junkyard, and says he’s gonna continue to work on getting it back up and running. But it just goes to show you – don’t mess with an enthusiast’s project, even if it is an eyesore.
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Source: Jimothyisyouruncle, via reddit
Comments
I am not a marriage counselor expert. However, I believe that car oriented guys should relate to car oriented gals only, period. Otherwise there will be trouble sooner or later…
Eww why would I want to be with another man! I’ll take a feminine woman who respects my hobbies and I hers. The broad in this story is petty and the guy should leave her.
I don’t belive sexual orientation is defined by a passion for cars or for having good motoring abilities. On the other hand automotive shops are basically filled with guys. I for one have known of some of them to be gays…
Sounds like an episode for Judge Judy.
Sounds like auto theft is the girl doing time?
Sounds like Jim is the luckiest man in America. It’s great that he found out who this woman really is before The wedding.
Well I’m sure glad he got that mess worked out I currently have two projects going on 84 Oldsmobile 98
And 94 Chevrolet Caprice if I came home n my cars were missing. Ima shut down the whole city til my questions get answered but if my wife did it can u say DIVORCE LOL
Next time i hopes he makes it worth the while and buys a 2 door… 4 doors are part’s cars.
I realize anyone who read this in the first place is likely a car lover, but with that said, if she had the arrogance to just throw away anything he valued to make room for something of her own, then she probably wasnt the right person anyway, I hope he won the court case.
Why is it when a woman moves in with a man (his place) they always want to throw out his things, I don’t get it how would she feel if we just started throwing he things out if we moved into her place, your supposed to build a relationship not throw out things it’s a 50-50 partnership.
In case you haven’t noticed they have did this to the entire western civilization. Which is why we are on the decline because of weak men. No such thing as 50-50 between a man and woman mate. Men have responsibility and accountability, a woman simply has to absolve herself when the going gets tough.