Rusted Automotive

This holiday season will be the first holiday that close friends of mine will be celebrating without their son/brother, Don Nemeth. Don, who passed away in June of this year, originally grew up in Rahway, New Jersey; when he was 21, he moved to Farmington, Maine (about 33 miles northwest of Augusta, the capital of Maine) before settling down to live out his years in Chesterville, just outside of Farmington. He did frequent to Pennsylvania quite often, however, and it was through his brief living and visits to the Keystone that allowed him to meet my dad. After losing touch with one another for some time, Don rekindled his friendship with my dad about ten years ago in 2008. A marine veteran and former tree climber and trimmer, I first met Don in April 2010; one of his many passions that he shared with my dad, my brother Kurt, and me was cars, especially Volvos. He often talked about his Volvo 850 T-5 R that he used to own, claiming it was one of the fastest cars he ever owned. (For s

As I sit down to write this, I still can't believe that it's been 20 years since Seinfeld went off of NBC's airwaves. Though I was too young to see the final season of Seinfeld fresh on the screen (I was three days away from turning two years old when Seinfeld ended), I grew up watching reruns and laughing like a loon at a show I didn't understand at six years old. But I digress. Going back to what this has to do with this 1972 Chevrolet Impala four-door hardtop sedan, Kramer drove a near  doppelganger  to the feature car here. You can find this clean Impala Sport Sedan (Chevy-speak for hardtop sedan) here on eBay in Malibu, California, with a current bid of $5,110 and reserve not met. Though featured as early as season 3 of Seinfeld (in a minor role in which Elaine, George, Jerry and Kramer get lost in a parking garage trying to find Kramer's car), the episode that gave Kramer's 1973 Impala (the major difference as compared to the 1972 model being a 5