There are many adults out there, carelessly describing their parents’ sacrifices for them as things a parent is supposed to do and something that their kids shouldn’t be bound by. But when Texas father, Earl Guynes of Mesquite, sold his most priceless acquisition – his ‘67 Chevrolet Camaro – for his young son, he didn’t know that his boy would never forget what his father gave up for him.
In a chat with Good Morning America, Texas’ Jared Guynes shared that growing up, he heard stories of how his father had many “cool cars.” But in the early 1980s, in Mesquite, Texas, his father, Earl Guynes, decided to make a painful but selfless decision – to sell his most prized possession, his Marina Blue 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, a car he loved dearly. It wasn’t just a car for him; it was his pride, his escape, and a symbol of his youth. But the priorities in his life shifted when he got married and his wife gave birth to their son, Jared. Money was tight, so Earl sold his Camaro, lightheartedly joking for years that he had let it go “for diaper money.”
