The Freddy Special

 This truck has a story attached to it. 

Merril bought a wrecked 2013 Ford F-150 March 2017 and ran into a guy name Freddy at Copart when he was picking it up. Freddy said he could fix it and Merril dropped it off the next day. Unfortunately, we don't have a picture of it wrecked but the whole front end was smashed in. 

Over the next few months, Merril bought some parts and took them to Freddy and gave Freddy cash to work on the truck. He was working on the truck for a while but not very fast. Then he moved shops like 3 times. Merril said he really needed this truck fixed so Freddy gave him another truck to drive for like 6 months. Then Freddy needed the borrowed truck back. So we gave back the borrowed truck and he rented Merril a truck for a week. 

Then over the course of like a year, Freddy gave us about 3 or 4 trucks to borrow. Around September 2019, we ended up with a crappy borrowed Durango. Then Merril couldn't get a hold of him for a long time, at least 6 months. Merril kept trying to call him and after a while, he started talking to Merril again. By now Freddy wasn't in Las Vegas anymore but was hauling cars around the U.S. We didn't know where the F-150 was at this point. 

Merril just kept calling him for the next 3 years. Sometimes Freddy would answer but mostly not. At this point, I'd completely written off the truck and Merril didn't like to talk about it because he was doing everything he could think of but still didn't have the truck. When Freddy would answer the phone, he seemed to indicate that the truck was mostly fixed but it was either stuck in a shop or he wasn't in Vegas and couldn't get to it. 

So then one day, Merril called Freddy and he called right back and said, "You can pick up the truck on Saturday in Vegas." We were cautiously optimistic. Merril hadn't been able to confirm we could pick up on Saturday until around 2 p.m. Merril called me and said to try to get the Durango, that's been sitting in our backyard for 3 years, ready to go! The kids and I got the Durango on the trailer and we all loaded up and headed to Vegas! Freddy told us it wasn't perfect. It still has some little things that needed some work but we just wanted it back. 

HERE IT IS! 🤯🤯🤯

I can't believe we got it back. I've written off this project so long ago. It took just over 5 years to get this deal sorted out! The only reason it happened was because Merril is so persistent! He would call Freddy's 2 phones almost everyday! I bet Freddy is so glad to get Merril off his back! It only has like 50,000 miles on it because it sat for so long. Although we dropped it off with 45,000 so that means someone was driving it. 🤔 Whatever. What's done is done. Let's just forget about the whole thing. 😋

Good job getting it back Merril!