Posted by Matt Thomas on April 26, 2016 at 07:45:02 from (74.197.221.30):
In Reply to: Chance Encounters posted by 37Chief on April 25, 2016 at 21:02:33:
Growing up, we lived on a small farm in the middle of central Oklahoma. Dad's primary job was in the oil field but farmed and gardened to make the ends meet. In '53 Dad bought one of the first, if not THE first Ford Jubilees in our county and it was the only tractor we had for years and the one I grew up on. When the Ford dealership closed in the early 60's Dad took the tractor to an old friend and mechanic when something needed repair that he couldn't or didn't have time to do. You can imagine that with the oil field job and farming, he had very little free time but his hobby in the 1960's was raising coyote hounds and chasing coyotes with his buds on Friday nights. Even had field trial quality hounds for a while. Dad passed 19 years ago.
I moved some distance away right out of college in '82.
Flash forward to about 4 years ago. I brought the old Jubilee to my place to tinker with. In the process of looking for a part or two I found an old timer I didn't know that worked only on small Ford's in a town nearby. Drove over to pick up a carb part and began chatting with the fella...explaining I was working on a Jubilee bought new in Lincoln County and mentioned my Dad's name. The old timer said "Stay right there" disappeared in the back of the shop and returned with a cassette recorder and tape. Popped the tape in and played it. I recognized my Dad's voice giving running commentary on the sound of a pack of coyote hounds baying in the back ground. It was a recording of the last time my Dad and the old timer had hunted together before he moved away and Dad got out of the coyote game. We both leaked around the eyes a little. He went on to tell me stories of the hunts they'd had...stories I'd never heard. The old timer is gone now and so is the shop.
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