BIG BLOCK JAMO

i wanted to get some outside opinions on this matter. tell me what you think;
my good friend Phil bought this 1958 Corvette 290 h.p. Fuel Injected
(matching #'s) 4 speed, 4:11 posi, 2 top, power windows in high school in 1968 for $1,200. in 2006 i took him to Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale.
while we're sitting there an identical 58 Corvette to his rolls-up on the block and sells for $145,000. he looks at me and his eyeballs were the size of baseballs. 2 weeks later i get the call and sure enough he tells me that he's doing a "frame-off" on his 58. i asked him if he realized what that really entailed? he went FULL-BOAR into the project. he followed all the NCRS guidlines and was off to the races. a year later i was in New York city and got a call from his girlfriend that he had died . i was committed to working on some tv shows and couldn't attend his funeral. i asked her who was handling his affairs. she gave me the # of his best friend from 2nd grade. i called about a week later and spoke to him. he told me that they were going to have the car appraised, sell it, pay off his bills and give the rest of the money to his 89 year-old mother. he promised me that he'd call me. 2 days later he calls and said that they had a southern california corvette dealer (name withheld) and he offered $25,000 for the project. i told him that i'd take it. he told me that he'd rather i have it than that dealer. i attended a memorial later and was given a box of his ashes. we (4 others and i) were instructed to put them into the Pacific Ocean. at first i was going to take them with me to Europe and put them in the Atlanitc (instead of the Santa Monica pier like everybody else).
i decided to finish the car as a tribute to my friend. when we were getting ready to paint the car some fiberglass was mixed to fill some small nicks on the no-hit body. then came my idea.. i took some of the wet fiberglass and mixed his ashes into it and spread it (him) onto the floorboard under the drivers seat. i figured that since he LOVED that car so much, this way he'd be in his car FOREVER.. i've had some people (especially Corvette guys) say that they loved my idea and others (especially women) say that this was creepy. i thought that this was a fitting tribute to my good friend. i was also told that if i ever sell the car, don't tell the buyer.. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK .. thank you;
BIG BLOCK JAMO

Nowhere Man

Well the old thing is to buried in the car. Being in the glass is close.

Sorry about your friend

pewter99

nice looking tribute

Hitch

Great job on finishing your friend's car. That is the ultimate promise..

Rich Yanulis

Your intentions were sincere, so you did the right thing

Frankie the Fink

I pretty much have my heart and soul in my '61 (and I'm still alive)!

DansYellow66

Yeah, it's a little creepy - but, I keep teasing my wife that I'm taking mine with me when I go. This may be a whole lot more practical idea.

Plasticman

I agree that you had the right intentions, but if his wishes were to have his ashes spread across the Pacific, then you failed him.

And I would not tell a potential buyer where his ashes ended up (that might just lose a sale).

Yes, the Vette looks outstanding!

Plasticman

Joe Inama

God bless ya . Best friend ever. Good job.

BIG BLOCK JAMO

Plasticman; he didn't plan on dyeing so he had no wishes. it was his girlfriend's idea because he had a boat and loved the ocean. i think that he loved his 58 more. either
way, he's gone, but his memory lives on. i know that he'd dig it. thanks guys for your
kind words. i can't not think of him every time i see the car.. all i can hope for is that somebody dose something like this for me when i check-out...

SpartyGW

I love it. I think I need to amend my will to add this.

Revfan

Can't you just drive the car into the Pacific?

outlaw67

A great job on the car and a fitting tribute , on a lighter note , who here has not left a bit of their DNA in a car some where , be it blood , sweat , tears or a moonlit run at the top of there favourite lookout , as others have recommended , no need to tell a potential buyer , cheers

Kerrmudgeon

Creepy to others or not, it's a deal between you and him. No one else need know, and every time you get in that car to go for a cruise, he'll be with you in the passenger seat....well, under it, just don't let him drive.

36couper

Only another car guy would understand. You did the right thing.

Kerrmudgeon

Let's see some pics of the project car! It's a requirement around here!

GreaseMonkey

Cool tribute to your friend.

My wife's parents ashes are in a rose bed next to our house.

My first wife's ashes are spread numerous places. I gave some of her ashes to her mother who put them in a flower bed, as well as gave some to her brother & sister.

Nothing creepy about it. The person is gone from the earth, but lives on in our lives. The body is just a vessel for our soul while we are here.

Rich Yanulis

The way I see it, the two above statements sum it up very nicely

RestoMike

Yep.....that's creepy.

red65Michigan

Awesome story and a great tribute to your friend. I asked my wife if she thought it was creepy and she said absolutely not as tears welled up in her eyes.

Back in 1998 the owner of the 65 that I now own never had the opportunity to take the car out for the Woodward Dream Cruise in Michigan as he was always working, because the owner of the shop always took his vacation during that week. He promised himself and told his boss / owner of the rental shop that the following year he was going to the Cruise and if it was vacation time, too bad he was closing the shop for the day. Two weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and never got that chance.

After purchasing the car from his widow and took it to the cruise and dedicated the first loop to Jack.