Johnpro Activities This Week

[Sacbill]

This was a tough week for all of us who were good friends of Johnpro's. The good news is that we had each other and our shared love of the Mustang hobby to help us through.

With Johnpro's memorial scheduled for today, Tuesday, we met on Monday at his house to get Scary all nice and cleaned up for the service:

Lots of heavy-duty drying to get Scary ready for some waxing and detailing...

Here, Pat (camachinist) points out where John DLM (DEL65) missed a spot while waxing...

The team continues to go to town, detailing under the hood and buffing out the wax...

One final detail before finishing up...

Today was a long day with much melancholy and even a few laughs as we remembered our friend. There was a fantastic turnout of Mustangs that teamed up with Scary in the church lot.

If Johnpro were here, we wouldn't be able to get him to tear away from checking out the cars...

Camachinist's 64 1/2 D-code, my '68 coupe, JeffTepper's '67 Fastback, and cmayna's '66 salute Johnpro's '69 sportsroof...

Hopefully, there are more pics from this week's events to share with those who couldn't be there. (Please post if you have them.) The long-distance award goes to Uncle Vinny (Teebone). Other notable long-distance appearances were made by David67 and his wife, Jennifer, Camachinist, opentracker, and 66gt350 and his wife. (I hope I didn't forget anyone.)

As Justin (gtscode) already posted, here's the slideshow of picutres from today's memorial service: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/gtscode-466071-johnpro/


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I want to say that I thank you all for coming to visit with me and Sharon after the service. I hope that the chance to have a bit of refreshment and chat was helpful and a part of the overall healing process. I, for one, miss my friend already, and can't get over the fact that I can't just call him up and say hello.

It just doesn't seem fair.


As I said today, there are a million stories about Johnpro. We all have them...tenfold, I bet. I think that a measure of a person could be that the more stories there are, the more impact and involvement that person made in others' lives. I hope I can learn from my friend and be the same in all my future endeavors. RIP, Brother John.

 

[Kats66Pny]

Wonderful post. It brought tears to my eyes to see how much love there is for John amongst his friends.

 

[FordDude]

Thank you so very much for sharing Bill and to Justin for the slide show.

fd

 

[Flysure1]

Great post/tribute.

 

[Shaun]

Nice touch guys. John would be proud.

 

[gtscode]

Thank you so very much for sharing Bill and to Justin for the slide show.

fd

fd - just to clarify I only got a copy and posted it to share here. I believe the John's family put the slides together.

It was an amazing day as John's impact on others was obvious. He was a great friend to all there and his kindness and postive attitude will be missed.

 

[KBMWRS]

Justin I can't view the slide show I guess because of firewalls here but I'd like to get the CD back someday so I can have a copy. No rush.

 

[cmayna]

A very touching slide show.

 

[guruatbol]

Awesome! I think it fitting that all those cars were there. John, you were a great guy and if we all carry just a little bit of you with us and learn one thing from you, we will all be better off having known you! I am hoping you will be waiting for me at the bar in the sky!

I got a chuckle remembering the first time I set up the rooms at the Marriott for Knott's. I talked them into letting us use a conference room for the end of day drinks and joking around. There was a big pad of paper on a stand and markers. We all took turns lecturing, but John's was so funny, my sides hurt! Well, you all can share the pics of that in the slideshow. I almost forgot about that.

That is what John was all about, having fun in the hobby and with friends. I don't think there was anyone that John couldn't be friends with!

May you be driving the Scary in the sky to the bar, John, RIP!

Mel

 

[DEL65]

Anyone know the woman photographer with The Glick Man / 70Sportsroof? I'm sure she took quite a few of them.

Also, anyone take photos or video of Scary cruising the parking lot yesterday?

 

[garner67]

John is one of those special people that make the classic car hobby more than just about cars. It was a great service, and I was honored to be in attendance. The service pointed out how John positively influenced so many people, of course car enthusiasts, but also multiple people talked about how he was a role model for family... a loving husband, a devoted father, honorable brother, and humorous son.

RIP John, you'll always be a role model for me. To the Bar.

 

[gtscode]

Justin I can't view the slide show I guess because of firewalls here but I'd like to get the CD back someday so I can have a copy. No rush.

You can have the CD anytime, but I did put everything online and sent you the link in the email last night.

Just download the presentation and the songs to the same location and it should play fine.

 

[Teebone]

wild horses could not have kept me from attending John's memorial..thank you Bill for being a shoulder to lean on and opening up your home to the lot of us. I and Toni will miss John very much..I am sitting in the Sacramento airport right now waiting to board my flight back home and my eyes are still watery..still so difficult to believe..

 

[abrahamfh]

Anyone know the woman photographer with The Glick Man / 70Sportsroof? I'm sure she took quite a few of them.

Also, anyone take photos or video of Scary cruising the parking lot yesterday?

I took some decent ones with my D90, they are currently in RAW but I will reformat into a JPEG to share later today.

 

[KBMWRS]

Yes a BIG THANK YOU to SacBill and Sharon for hosting a nice get-together at their house yesterday and offering up food and beverage. There was a housefull of Mustangers that enjoyed each other's company and rememberences of our friend John. Of course we talked Mustangs too as John would have wanted us to. :10

During the service the microphome was passed around for folks to offer up their rememberences of John. Oh I so wanted to tell of the bar bill at Knotts that John complained was too small because he drank more than that all by himself.....but alas I knew I couldn't even hold the mic without breaking down. :shy

 

[Sacbill]

Re: Johnpro Activities This Week VIDEO UPLOADED

Anyone know the woman photographer with The Glick Man / 70Sportsroof? I'm sure she took quite a few of them.

Also, anyone take photos or video of Scary cruising the parking lot yesterday?

To my knowledge, the woman taking photos was a friend of the family's.

I just uploaded my video of Scary being parked in a place of honor. See here. There are a lot of SFers in that video.

 

[68bucks]

Scary sure is a beautiful car! I know it's all in my mind, but I can't help but think that Scary also has a sad look!

 

[abrahamfh]

Not saying that your description of Scary is wrong by any means, but I kind of get the frustrated and I can't express it so I'm angry feeling.