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1952 Chevy Bel-Air

I think Father may have owned a Chevy similar to this but a lower model, maybe a Deluxe.  He always bought 4 doors until the Montecarlo late in his life.  It may have been at '51 that he owned.  I was only 7 or 8 at the time.

1955 Chevy Bel-Air

To my knowledge this is the first non black car dad owned.  When I was in college I begged him to sell me this car.  Initially I had seen a black chevy like the one at the top for sale.  They wanted $100.00 for it and dad would not even consider it.

1963 Corvair Spyder

Instead he went out to Minster and bought this car.  It was a factory official's car.  It was for me and I had to make payments to them for it.  He did not ask me about it but he knew what I wanted.

1963 Corvair Spyder

It was a "snazzy" car but impracticle.  The wire wheels were real and they would not fit the tire machine when I bought tires.  I finally replaced them with black steel wheels.  Tires back then lasted maybe 10,000 miles.  The rear tires wore off on the inside.  I was too busy to work on it.  I sold it when I had about 60,000 miles on it.

More on Pyrite Filiform Chabazite

Pyrite Filiform Chabazite

 I bought this sample at the fair grounds early in June at the Richland Lithic and Lapidary Gem and Mineral Show.  I bought it from Don Smolley who collected it at Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co., West Virginia, a well known place for this mineral.

I would like to give thanks to Mindat.org whose experts helped me find it.  Someone mentioned that it forms in a vug, a depression, and almost immediately I found it.  The vug is in the lower left corner of the image above.  Now that I know where it is I can see it.  It is almost directly above the copyright symbol.  It is tiny, about 1 mm. The cube measured about 6mm.

Pyrite Filiform Chabazite

The above formation, on the top edge of the vug, I think, also houses a small cube of pyrite one corner of which is extending out of the crystal formation. It is directly above the "b" of Chabazite.  Let me know if you can see it.  I don't have that confirmed.