As the title says, part of my childhood has died. I just found out yesterday from a friend of mine that my father’s old shop 133 Rt. 22, Green Brook, NJ has been torn down. I’ve known this has been coming for over a year now so it was just a matter of time before it got knocked down. I’m really sad to see it go since I spent many weekends there with my father when I was growing up. It’s especially sad for me to see it go since before it was Truppi-Kling High Performance, it belonged to my maternal grandfather. Then, it was known as Coddington Auto. My father used to work for my grandfather and that’s where he learned everything he knows about cars. When I used to go there on weekends with my father, I used to dream that one day I’d be going there and working on my future wife’s car and my future kid’s car. Now, I hold a small grudge against Commerce Bank because if they weren’t so gung-ho about putting a branch on just about every street corner, then the building would still be standing.