Requiem for a Lightweight - Old Nero the Alfa 164 Organ Donor Obit 1990-2010

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He was down to just skin and some unibody bones. Can you believe his carcass remains weighed in at only 540 pounds. It was a far cry from his advertised weight of 3395 lbs (1540 kg) when in perfect health.Well, while final his burial/cremation is to follow in a furrin country to be determined later, we let the magnetic and jaw clamping crane operator at the recycler's site ungracefully lift Old Nero's body out of a borrowed funeral hearse aka a former landscaper's trailer (now a ATV hauler) today at 1100 hours.My son and I finished stripping out his under carriage and front subframe early this morning. I literally sawed off his front end right up to front strut strut towers in case somebody gets kissed hard in the front end and needs front end radiator support and cross rails.His carcass was picked clean of everything that could be unbolted or unclamped from his skeleton. Nary a wire or metal component left on his bones. He did go to the great boneyard though with a multi cracked front windshield that failed to let go without a fight and gave up so we were able to only extract it's chrome trim pieces. Rear window came out intact but not without a fight.You could say Old Nero fought a valiant fight to the very end but finally let go in the end and went quietly into the night.May his many remaining organs give life to his many cousins still out there somewhere.