Hank Johnson is a bitter man. After losing his wife, Anne, to a long illness, he loses his faith. He becomes a creature of routine, spending his days visiting his wife’s gravesite and hanging out with the “baker’s dozen, ” a group of guys who gather at the local diner for breakfast and car talk. When Hank receives news from his estranged daughter that he is about to become “Grandpa Hank”, his best friend, Joe, talks him into selling his house in Bakersfield and heading back east. “Babies have a way of making things right again, ” advises Joe.
After Hank sets out on a cross-country odyssey in the old Dodge “hippie van” parked in his garage for years, he discovers that there’s more to traveling than following a double yellow line. Restored Heart & Soul is a heartwarming adventure of a broken old man in a broken old van, restored with God’s help and some unexpected kind hearts along the way. “There’s more to a car than metal and parts, ” Hank realizes as he faces setbacks that would try any man’s patience. “It’s more about the people who drive them and the stories that happen in them that make them classics.”
Table of Content
Acknowledgements iiPreface iii
Foreword v
The Grave-Robber 1
The Happy Daze Geezer Club 7
Making Plans, Moving On 15
Chicken Man to the Rescue 29
Goodbye, Beloved Anne 45
The Last Supper 55
New Beginnings 63
East-Bound and Down, Good Buddy 75
Today Is Your Lucky Day 91
All Saints Day 113
America Whizzes by at 65 MPH 129
Slip Sliding Away 149
Heading Home 171
A New Life 189
A Final Good Bye to Anne 205
About the Author 221
About the author
Dave Bielecki is the publisher of Car Show & Cruise Guide (www.carcruiseguide.com) and Upper Bay Boating (www.upperbayboating.com) and is the Executive Director of the Custom and Classic Car Educational Foundation (www.savethehobby.org), the mission of which is ‘to promote the custom and classic car culture and history to the public, along with encouraging a new generation of enthusiasts.’In Restored Heart & Soul, Mr. Bielecki’s first book, he combines his love of classic cars with a desire to invite others to revisit their relationship with God.
Mr. Bielecki currently resides with his wife, Diane, his son, Daniel, their two cats, and a few classic cars in various stages of being restored, heart and soul.
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