BMP - Good bye all !

["Roloff, Paul" <proloff@xxxx>]

BMP,

I wondered what BMP stood for. I also owned a 70 two passenger Gremlin. It
was purple. I had young kids so I ended up adding the rear seat and opening
rear window that I got from a bone yard. I drove it for years and then my
brother wanted it and he drove it for years. I also had a 72 304 for years.
I would like that one back. Its the only car I ever made money on when I
sold it. I had done something to it, but before I was done a neighbor kept
peeling off green stamps until I gave in. He also drove it for years.

As far as identity goes it appears to me by the book that you are reading
that you derive your self worth from the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ
loves you so much that he willingly paid the price for your sins on the
Cross of Calvary. Not only that he guaranteed a place for you in his heaven
when he rose form the dead on Easter morning. It is always nice to know of
another brother. I look forward to meeting you if not in this part of life
then in eternity. Happy motoring and God's blessings,

PWR <><

-----Original Message-----
From: ecurbpope@xxxx [mailto:ecurbpope@xxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:59 AM
To: gremlintime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gremlintime] BMP - Good bye all !


Hello, 

Before I hit the un-subscribe button I just wanted to say thank you to the 
site owner and the people who volunteered to moniter the site. I just sold
my 
1970 Gremlin that I bought new when I was a teenager and owned ever since.
The 
car was special in the fact that they only made 872 Two passenger Gremlins
in 
1970 and the car was one of the first made that year. It is going to a good 
home in PA where it will become part of a Gremlin "herd" of Gremlins
representing 
every year and eavery type. I'm very pleased with that.

I know a lot of you are freaking out at the fact someone would sell a car 
after having it for almost thirty four years. To tell the truth, the car was

becoming to much a part of my identity even when I didn't do anything to
promped 
it. Somehow it came up in conversation either positive or negative. I don't 
like being identified or having my personality attached to anything. I was 
begining to feel like a Star Trek "Treky".

As much as I love the car and my motives were simple, (I liked having an old

car and especially the fact it had been with me through so much of my life)
I 
started not to like the identity. If any one of you have ever gone through 
extreme changes in your life you know some things attached to your identity
have 
got to go. 

I know alot of you are going to think well this guy went off the deep end or

he's really not a true "Gremie". Let me tell you this. You would be hard 
pressed to find someone who has owned one (and the same one for that matter
) 
longer than I have. Secondly, I'm exercising the same radical freedom of
selling it 
as I had when I bought it. 

I don't want my life centered on a product of AMC, Chevy, Harley Davidson or

"Hot Pockets " for that matter. It really eats up the freedom of who you can

really be. I have "morphed" and reinvented myself many times in my life, its

all about transitions. Just watch the movie "catch me if you can"! As much
as I 
loved that car I love my freedom more! Its exillerating!!!!

God bless,
Bruce Michael Pope (BMP)



  


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