Mike,
Can you find an address for this family? My kids have more matchbox cars
than
they know what to do with.
Kurt Weisner
----- Original Message -----
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
To: "Tony Massetti" <tmassett@suffolk.lib.ny.us>; "Steve & Virginia"
<svslowmg@netzero.net>; "Datsun Roadster List"
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>; "Bill Strohm" <wstrohm@socal.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Not Just a Car, but a Datsun
> This obituary appeared in the NY Times yesterday. Since 9/11 the Times has
> been running obituaries of every person lost that day - several a day.
> Unfortunately it takes a long, long time to print the obits of 3,000
people.
>
> He was one of us - a Datsun guy.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Not Just a Car, but a Datsun
>
> ~ PEDRO CHECO, was a Datsun 510 buff. As a teenager he owned a 510, and
as
> he got older he yearned, for another. Three years ago, he finally bought a
> 1972 Datsun 510 and began rebuilding it. He had a feel for the innards of
> cars. He could fix anything.
>
> He joined the Datsun 510 Club, for it was a car with a keen following, and
> his plan was to compete in drag races. He entered two races last year, but
> the car needed more power. So he installed a more potent engine and was
> scheduled to get the horsepower measured on Sept. 30 before returning to
the
> drag strip. Now the car sits idle in the garage.
>
> Mr. Checo, 35, who lived with Marmily Cabrera and their two children,
Jason
> 6 and Julian 1, in Queens, was a vice president of investment operations
for
> Fiduciary Trust. He also had a son, Franklin, 17, from an earlier
> relationship. He hated the name Pedro, and Ms. Cabrera called him Frank,
his
> nickname.
>
> Something about cars was embedded in the Checo genes. Jason has about 250
> Matchbox cars and every time his mother takes him to the toy store, he
wants
> another. "It's fine with me," she said. "They're only $1."
>
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