Well I took the General (previously the revamped GENERAL 2000)to a farm, so it could drive around in the pasture with the other trucks.
For those who knew it well, lets take a moment to reflet on it's glorious 350,000 miles of rootin' tootin' offroading life.
Born in 1989 in a factory in Detroit, the General spent it's younger years driving the backroads and valleys of Leadville, Colorado. The property of a skilled mechanic, the General was kept in pristine condition, until it's adult life (150,000 miles) when it was sold to a pluck young man. Neither knew that this new relationship would take the young man to remote backroad locations and grand mountain vistas, and would take the General from a life of obscurity to a life of corporate whoring and domestic roadside violence.
The young man would subjugate the General and brand it with corporate flare, then abuse it beyond it's clearance specification in backass Canada. It would be fored to commit murder, multiple roadside slaying of deer, mice, and insect genocide. The General has a brief moment of world-wide fame, appearing briefly in the movie "X-men," but recieving no credit or public recognition for it's role in that movie. The General would suffer further loss and cosmetic reconstruction as it lost 2 canopies on the same stretch of road, near Slesse Mtn.
Now, with a full engine a week oil-leak, no parking brake, no power steering, a cracked windshield, broken stereo, no driver side window rolling wheel, broken side window locks, bent front axel, destroyed upholstery, a family of mice in the engine somewhre, torn passenger side seatbelt, and a broken gas guage, the General 2000 Lives On in our hearts and memories...replaced by a reasonabley priced and sensible Toyota Camry.