Friday, June 04, 2021

Steve just let me know of a Huey, in Jacumba (near San Diego) on a gas station pump canopy, which was a Vietnam chopper, THEN was a prop in the Fear The Walking Dead tv show (thanks Steve!)



The canopy was torn down and replaced with an all steel landing pad that could support the load of the chopper, and the wind blowing on it during the Santa Anas, and the chopper was lifted onto that with a crane. 

It doesn't have a motor, but, that saved the gas station owner a lot of money, and resulted in him getting the Huey for only 42k

The gas station owner has his own incredible story, his parents were fleeing Iraq, he was born in Greece, they got to the USA, he made a lot of companies, a lot more money, was a drug mule, transporting marijuana from San Diego (of course, and it likely was smuggled into SD from TiJuana) to Michigan and Iowa. He ended up doing 3 years in prison when they caught him. 

But, he still had other businesses, and overcame the complications from being in prison, and now is living in LaJolla (rich rich rich) running 20 profitable companies, owns a couple gas stations, got hsi helicopter license, owns a McDonnell Douglas 500 as well as the Huey, and is pretty happy with how things have turned out. 

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  1. It's great to see that he appreciates the opportunities he received when he immigrated to the US.

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