Lamar, We’ll Miss You!
Lamar G. Jacobs is called Home.
On behalf of the entire Tail Fins and Chrome team, and their families, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the Jacobs family with the passing of their patriarch Lamar G. Jacobs. Lamar was called home Sunday, August 25, 2010 – he will be missed on earth and welcomed in Heaven.
A Man With His Heart In The Right Place.
In 1960, I purchased a 1960 T Bird convertible out of my Washington Senator’s bonus. It was the first car I ever owned, so it had a special place in my heart. It had a place in my wife, Jan’s heart as she, then just a girlfriend, used to take her old boyfriends out in it when I was on road trips with the Indianapolis Indians in 1961. (She really did!) When we got married in 1962, we purchased a 33’ X 8’ mobile home, had it painted robin egg blue to match the T-Bird, and subsequently pulled it to Florida for spring training and then on to Charlotte, NC, where I played my last year in 1963. We lived in that mobile home for three years, before we started having babies, then we bought our first home. Of course, with babies and such, the T-Bird was no longer practical, so we reluctantly sold it, always reminiscing that we should have held on to it for prosperity sake. So for years we casually looked for the long-departed “60-Bird”,to no avail. Accelerate with me now to Oct. 13th, 2000. I took the day off to celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary in Sarasota. (What a guy! See how old age makes you so much smarter!) On the way back to Bradenton, we passed a building that had a Chandler Chrysler Classics on it. (Only one mile from my office!) As we passed by, Jan said very empathetically, “turn around, I feel like your T-Bird is there!” As the years have passed, I have learned to appreciate and pay heed to my wife’s intuition! (Tis’ a Venus thing!) We pulled into the dark parking lot and peered into the dark showroom, not seeing anything conclusively, but there were definitely two T-Bird convertibles in the back. The next morning we went back with great anticipation and we were not disappointed. There in the back corner was a 1960 T-Bird convertible, the same robin egg blue color of my original ’60 Bird. Bob Chandler, the owner said, “ we just got that in last week. It had been in a barn in Atlanta.” It had all original equipment, the chrome was perfect and it only had 85,000 miles on the speedometer. I was virtually in shock! Needless to say. we purchased this marvelous vehicle. Yes we had to get a new paint job and have the engine detailed, but other than that, the rest is all original issue. That’s probably why you came over to look at it and to concur that it was most definitely a special car. But the story does not end there. We do not believe that this was just a coincidence. The odds of this car showing up so close to home was indeed supernatural! We believe that we have a loving God who not only cares for us, but provides for us, not only the essentials of life, but every once in a while, He provides us with a very special gift, like the 1960 T-Bird. I’m sure you can look back over your life and His hands at work. You might have labeled it just a coincidence then, but through “spiritual glasses”, you probably could relabel the event “supernatural.” Over the years I have come to not only appreciate God’s interest and activity in my life, but to become more and more thankful for the wonderous gifts of his Son, Jesus Christ, to mankind.
