Thats very nice Bob   may we use it?     I can't believe hes gone  such a shame....

we should put it at the top were car of the month is!

Only ever met Hillar but once - at the CP BBQ. He seemed knowledgeable, funny, sincere and a bit opinionated ( in a nice way ).
Like everyone else on here I'm going to miss him.
It appears that yes - the good do die young.

Count me in on the group endeavour. PM me.

Ted

 My oh my.............! As a mirror image of everyone on here, I too am truely speechless and feel the same emptyness right now!! Condolences to his family, his CP family and all his friends....... R.I.P.

 I am in too.........

I just logged on and read the terrible news.   I first talked to Hillar in the mid 90's as I got his number from Shea Eady in Burlington, he had the Red 70 454 Wagon that ended up going to Dave Wach.  Shea only had Hillar's #.    Years later, after joining POCI I called Hillar as he had some parts listed in POCI's Smoke Signals, and after talking for a while I put two and two together and realized we'd spoken before.  We met for the first time at POCI Grand Rapids in 2000. 

A long story short, Hillar was out here last summer to take a look at the "Alternate Green Monster", my green/gold 70 2+2.  I was on vacation, and showed him around a bit, and he stayed the night with my wife and I.   He was a bit taken with my dog, and he snapped the photo of my dog that I used as an avatar for quite a while.  We were able to put together a deal, and he took delivery of the car mid
Sept, and got right to work on it.

We'd talk once a month or so, mainly about cars but also about the TV show "Mad Men", and about how much he loved living in Toronto & Ontario in general - a bit of sarcasm there.

Hillar was a good guy, a car guy, and a pal.

-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Tuesday 12th of January 2010 10:19:20 PM

Just logged in, totally in shock. Met Hillar at HMP show in Hamilton.The site will be at a loss without him! My regards to his family.

Count me in too.

Boy reading Clint's post about his dog really strikes a chord. Our dogs are Airedale Terriers, also known as the King of the Terriers, some people just call them Terrorists, most people who come to our place just run the other way. Not Hillar. He could tame the old beast Abbey and the last time he was here on Dec. 30th our youngest Penny just sat in his lap the whole night, snuggling up and providing the odd face wash. I think she like him because of his whiskers! He loved her too! I had forgotton about that until Clint posted, thanks for getting me to smile a little tonight Clint.

Pardon me if I'm posting too much. Have a look at the photo. Once we put our cars in storeage side by side we noticed something about our Historic plates. I posted two photos together to show it.  What are the chances of two friends with two Pontiacs getting plates with the same numbers?

1H8631

1H6183

-- Edited by 73SC on Tuesday 12th of January 2010 11:52:27 PM

-- Edited by 73SC on Wednesday 13th of January 2010 10:31:33 AM

73SC wrote:

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Pardon me if I'm posting too much.

You can never post too much

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         Interesting how God gives us those blessings    

I know, we will always remember him as a "pioneer" on this Historical site....

 

Sorry to hear of Hillar's passing, and my condolences to his family and friends on here. I would also like to be included for support.