Thanksgiving message
From Rhonda Hiatt (75): Battle Ground, WA
Hi Gary,
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!
Rhonda Hiatt
Pigeon Cars
Reply from Allen Richard (65): Midland, MI
More car stuff and Gary Pigeon — Like Dick — my apologies to the girls!
The ’38 that Gary drove through high school and his years at Wahpeton was a 4 door — with suicide rear doors. He or his dad bought it from Uncle A. D. Robert — Val Moyer’s grand father and my mom’s uncle. He drove it until he got the Victoria. On one trip home from college the car took a quart of oil every 100 miles or so. He nursed it home and overhauled the flat head with parts he salvaged from a nail keg full of flathead parts they had removed from other cars. I Think he drove it for another two years before he redid the engine properly. He kept it in running condition until he left the farm. I’d guess it would still run when it disappeared from the shed a few years after he left Dunseith.
I didn’t know you had the high performance parts. I always thought he sold them to a friend of mine, George Miller, who worked with Gary to rebuild a ’47 Ford. George, Gary and I were racing partners in ’68. But that would begin a whole other story involving a 312 with a bad attitude and a white ’59 I drove from 1970 to early ’75. Ok — I’m done boring the ladies. — Well except to let you know that my old black Charger turned 173,000 miles last week out here in MI where it was born in April of ’74 Its attitude is about 150 horses worse than it was back in Dunseith. MSD computer chip limits it to a little under a buck fifty. All the numbers still match. I’ve taken it to a few car shows, but I tell people it is a “go girl, not a show girl.” I think ol’ cussin Jack Smith would like that. He would also like the fact that I drove it from ND to MN and from there to Michigan — and a road trip with my daughter Alaina to Minneapolis a year ago. Ol’ Dakota Midnight will be going into winter storage on Dec. 1. I might drive it back to Dunseith in the next year or so, but I need to check the supply of premium gas along the route.
Your CD is in the player in the car. Wish I could find a recording of Thunder Road. I think that would be appropriate too 
Allen
Kim Hiatt Hermann (77) photo
From Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND.
Berg Picture
Reply form Don Aird (Carroll Carlson’s nephew): St Louis, MO
I was in graduate school with Guy Berg 1971/2 at NDSU in microbiology (last picture) he was pretty smart I’m pretty sure he got his PhD
Reinhard/Lillian Torgerson Berg Schultz Family Photo
From Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND.
Lillian was married to Alvin Berg who was killed on the way to a funeral(?). Their children are: Gary, Diane, Sharon, and Guy. Sharon Berg Budge identified the people in the picture.
