Although these have the Modular 5.4 liter gasoline V8 engine (which replaced the 351 Windsor V8), a diesel Econoline Conversion Van that we could have bought would be similar to these:
A diesel Suburban with the type of paint job we get on ours, although we don’t get it in the colors the one picture below are; and we never put any aftermarket wheels on ours:
6.5L diesel specs, history, and information. The 6.5 diesel was manufactured by Detroit Diesel, a division of General Motors during the time period and used in Chevrolet/GMC trucks from the 1992 to 2000 model years. AM General continues to produce the 6.5L for U.S. Army applications.
So that you can get an overall understand of what exactly the 6.2 and 6.5 liter diesels are, how they ever came into being by Detroit diesel; and how important they are to us and that we equip our Suburban with these engines (the 6.5 by the time we buy our Suburban), here is an article about these engines.
6.2L diesel specs, history, and information. The 6.2 diesel was manufactured by Detroit Diesel, a division of General Motors during the time period and used in Chevrolet/GMC trucks from 1982 until 1993.
A GMT400 1-ton Single-Rear-Wheel pickup for sale with the Red interior (the color of interior we get in our diesel-powered Suburban in Early Life And Continuous Livelihood) and the 6.5 liter diesel.
Sadly, this truck is one of those homemade and makeshift flatbed trucks where the pickup box is removed and a shoddy, homemade flatbed body in installed. Something that is most commonly done by a redneck in the Southeastern portion of the United States.
If I were buying this truck, I would reinstall a stock pickup body on the chassis & cab.
There’s also one more personal objective for “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood” that I haven’t ever announced up until now in this post and in this sentence: for people who may compassionately understand what this book is all about to reach out to me in ways like maybe sending me fan mail stating something like they deeply understand what this book is all about, it’s purpose in the public marketplace; and how near and dear it is to me that it exists as a public book.
There’s a saying: “you’re born, you live; and you die”.
Below is a photo of Mary Agnes “Mag” spreading her mother’s ashes on an open body of water:
Personally, this book is designed to keep the flame of my paternal grandmother (known as Aunt Gene to the cousins), Marie “Mimi”, Mary Ann; and Joe alive for a much longer period of time, and to be a place to turn to where we can literally “jump right back” to the 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Professionally, this book is intended to be a memoir like the books “The Lost Child Of Philomena Lee” penned by once and again BBC employee and former British Government employee Martin Sixsmith and was adapted into the 2013 motion picture starring Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith and Judi Dench as Philomena Lee; “The Butler: A Witness To History” penned by Wil Haygood and was adapted into the 2013 motion picture starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Robin Williams, and Alan Rickman; and the book titled by Captain Richard Phillips titled “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea” and was later adapted into the 2013 motion picture starring Tom Hanks. This book also consists of a little fiction of what could have happened, what should have happened; and what would have happened. I guess this book falls into the classification of what is referred to as a Fake Memoir or a Fictional Diary.
Shannon and her late husband Ray “R.A” Montgomery were and are a couple of the many writers of the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books, and they founded the book publishing company in Vermont that I am associated with. Ray, along with another man whose name is Edward Packard; were the two founders of the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books.
Ed had discovered that this man who was running an earlier publishing company called Vermont Crossroads Press, Ray; was looking for you-based role-playing children’s game book to publish. Ed had written the manuscript for the very first Choose Your Own Adventure book, Sugarcane Island; 10 years earlier and was rejected by many different publishing companies over the next 10 years until he had approached Ray. Sugarcane Island was actually perfect for Ray’s idea of a you-based role-playing children’s game book and both he and Ed were in concordance with their ideas of what a children’s chapter book should be, being that it is you-based role-playing children’s game book where the reader decides the outcome of the story by turning to certain pages in the book.
Ray is just as philosophical as our friend Dennis, and Dennis & Ray are also as philosophical as a Mid-Michigan based veterinarian who has a reality television show instigated by his adopted son Charles, Dr. Jan Pol. I’ll get more into talking about Jan Pol and his wife Diane in another post. Make a long story short, put it to you this way as of right now in this post; Ray, Dennis; and Jan Pol each have a lot in common amongst each other.
Picture of Ray with his beard, which many of us in the family know him and remember him fondly with:
Picture of Ray clean-shaven, which he decided to wear his face as just shortly before he had passed away:
Video of Ray being interviewed by some young guy who is an internet maven about the history and philosophy of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. Ray also talks about the recent death of his son and Shannon’s stepson Ramsey in this video:
Pictures of Mary Agnes “Mag’s” daughter Hannah, and is also one of Mary Ann’s grandchildren and Marie “Mimi’s great-grandchildren:
A birth announcement of Hannah’s birth (just a few months before my own whelping) that had been mailed to us from Connecticut, where Mag was living at the time:
Pictures of a couple more of Mary Ann’s grandchildren and Marie “Mimi’s great-grandchildren, Alison & David’s 2 sons Walker and Penn:
Pictures of a few more of Mary Ann’s grandchildren and Marie “Mimi’s great-grandchildren, Colin & Sheila’s 3 sons: the oldest child who was also named Whit (named after Mary Ann’s husband and the kids’ father), Festus (the middle child); and Angus (the youngest child).
We and my paternal grandmother drive in the diesel Suburban to Chris & Jim’s house one Easter Day, and Jim’s family from Virginia are over. The conditions are that it’s cloudy and in the high 60’s outside. Chris has an Easter Egg hunt in her backyard, and I do not participate in the Easter Egg Hunt. My sister participates in the Easter Egg hunt. My father tells me not to worry; he is not much of a social person either with regards to me feeling uncomfortable over all of these (stranger) people around. Jim and Moe are watching a golf event televised by CBS Sports on WJBK-TV. As we’re leaving in the diesel Suburban, my mother makes a comment that Carletta’s voice sounding just like her mother Bernice’s.
The moral of the story is that unlike my father’s sister neither my parents nor I are what are referred to as socialites and social butterflies, that I am not fond of strangers, the ways of Jim’s family are barbaric; and to a lesser extent, neither Darlene’s vehicle that she traveled with her family to the Detroit area in, nor is Moe & Carletta’s vehicle that they traveled with their 2 daughters to the Detroit area in are our cup of tea.
In the case of Darlene & Carletta, my parents would continue their mum,not contacting just anyone they desire because it’s not appropriate, and it’s “their family and not ours” approach towards them.
The overcast sky looks similar to the picture below, with the temperature being in the high 60’s:
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