Brickman, I see ur a Mossurian, me too, by birth, born n raised till my TEENS in St. Louis, Mo in the 50's and early 60's...like ur prolouge says, a hard charging good handling hot rod and a sunny day on some winding Ozark mountain road, it don't get much better than that very often....nuff said...
As for ur medical bills, im a disabled Viet-Nam Veteran for whom it was a 30 year fight to get a single cent or any paid health care compensation, man all those years of choose betwen a medical and some other bill getting paid, by the time i did get a paid disability rating from the VA i had nearly 100k in yet unpaid medical bills myself.
Will pray that, as u say, at worst have to give up an excess toy or 2 and may the very best of the past b the worst u see in the future...hang in there big guy... we need more of us, not fewer...