Ok, Virgill is a very dear friend of mine, I love him so dearly. He and his wife had known each other since they were 12 and 10 yrs old, over 60 years. His wife passed away just over a year ago and he promised her, the night she died, that he would come back to Jesus. She passed that night, in their bed, in his arms, just the two of them, I was the first person other than resuce that he called, even before his own family. He told me of his promise and he has let me be beside him on his walk back to the Lord, it is a gift that I could never have imagined. Virgil is my family, closer than any blood could be.

Now you know our nutshell story. I have always helped Virgil on his computer stuff, mid seventies and he has forgotten more about computers than most people know. Anyway, he went on a trail cleanup with us a couple months back and afterward we hit a piece of one of the trails, he was in hog heaven, he loved it, next thing I knew he wanted to go on all the runs and I said sure. He left in early December to travel the country and visit family and called me while he was gone, he wanted a toy to play off road, he has a 2005 Grand Cherokee with a Hemi but don't want to scratch it so we have to get him a rhino or something. Two nights ago I took him out looking and he fell in love with a tricked out 660cc Yamaha Rhino that would offroad no trouble and he was not as concerned with the $19G tag as I was except that we could dicker it down!!! He wanted to look at jeeps first tho. So, I took him first to look at a friends jeep that he was selling cheap to get the money quick to buy another rig he was looking at and low and behold, Virgil, mid seventies, 5"7 or 8 maybe dear sweet loveable man, bought this 5.5" lifted TJ on 35's!!!!!!

He never ceases to amaze me. We are taking him out saturday for his first group of off road lessons!!!

This man loves the Lord and life and is an inspiration to me and my wife and I love him like no other. Thanks for listening to our story, here is a couple pics of his new 97 TJ, and yes, he has mentioned painting it eventually, prolly his favorite automotive color, RED!!!



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thats pretty cool, I hope that when I reach that age Ill still be active enough to try out new things!

We need some pics of him wheeling it now :D

That is a great story, cant wait to see pics of him out on the trail. Hopefully we will be able to add a pic to our collection of fish pic.

I think he has decided to only keep this jeep a few months to learn on and then sell it and build one the way he wants it. When he gets that one, we will definately have the fish on it!!!!

That's cool too. Buy it, break it, then build a better one.

That is a good back story. Thanks for the share.

OK, another change in plans, I think he i going to keep this one and paint it!!

Here he was on his first off-road run


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Thanks Lugz for sharing the story... very touching. Maybe one day we can all wheel together.

He look right at home in that Jeep, he been wheeling a long time?

That was his first time out

He has driven Bradley Tanks and flown helicopters tho!

Im sure it dosent compare to driving tanks but how did he like it?

Well, the smile in the last pic says it all. He loved it and can't wait to go again, I took him to 4 wheel parts yesterday to introduce to the guys there and he bought some stuff and we are going to work on it this saturday to try and set it up more for him and hopefully we can go out and play again real soon