Just read over on the Hamb.....Zap is not well....
Please keep him in your thoughts.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/prayers-needed-for-fellow-hambr-zapato.1050164/
Thats sad news and wish him well.
We just lost two guys from our little home town group in the last three months.
I know Jim......
In the last 6 months I have lost quite a few friends... This Past weekend 2 guys i know were involved in a terrible car accident due to weather.
At any rate.... Zap is a valued guy here and I wish the very best for him.
Oh no. I have been wondering about his absence. Zap....if you're reading this get well, buddy. Zap and I pm back and forth frequently, and are hoping to shake hands one day.
My prayers for Zap as well. He has helped me a couple of times, shared the "brotherhood", he needs to get well! Been through too much to go out like this!
Talking about our hobby and the folks we know is kinda like a history book and the obit section of the paper. Our Saturday morning breakfast group of car guys has shrunk from an average of 10 - 12 down to two of us with an occasional interloper. All but one of them are now gone. Everybody else has fallen to one ailment or another.
Man that's rough. Prayers.
I'll say some prayers for Zap also.
A Hamb member and friend/neighbor of Zap's has been posting updates. There's been a few very encouraging good news posts, and today a pic of Zap in his hospital bed sitting up and smiling....great news and very encouraging.
Zap looks like Santa Clause...who woulda guessed, lol.
Here is a pic of Zap on the back end of a Flatty..... Father,Grandfather and Veteran ...... I understand they have ceased any more treatments..... Thinking of you Zap.
I just Read..Alonso has passed......Peace Zap.
Just know he is in a better place. Such a shame......my thoughts and prays are with his family and his brothers.
We've all just lost. Peace my friend.
RIP
RIP Zap..
I would like to have known him. Sounds like a great guy.
I just read and posted on the general discussion board how unwell he was and now I come on this board and hear he has passed, very sorry to hear. He was a great guy, we conversed many times on here and I will miss that.
RIP Zap, I'll miss you.
Rarely a day goes by that something doesn't remind me of Zap. He's one of the rare people you find out so much more about after they're gone. The many contacts and inputs he had here on this forum were a small portion of what Zap was all about. The thread that was going on over on the Hamb opened my eyes quite a bit as to Zap's involvement in the car community. The thing that stands out for me is it wasn't so much about the peoples' cars as it was the car people if that makes sense. So many have come forward and talked about things Zap had sent them. I'm in that group on more than one occasion.
For those of you who haven't read the Hamb thread, and I confess I haven't for a week or so, a few things of note. Zap had been helping a neighbor and fellow Hamb member to build a car for a few years. It was a family thing as well, as both the wive's were involved and was an almost daily event for them.
When he was released from the hospital, one of his friends took a leave of absence from work so he could help Zap's wife with the therapy and care Zap was going to need. That's a true friend. Funny, almost no one on the Hamb calls him Zap..it's mostly "Al" over there.
RIP Zap. Never met him but with a close knit place like this you don't have to have met someone in person to have known them.
I've been away for a while.Finally have things back together after hurricane Harvey.Yep it took a lot of my time,and money. The return is saddened by the news of Zap passing away. I never got to meet him, but felt as if I had known him forever. It's a car guy thing I guess. Rest in peace, my friend .