There I was on a Saturday marketplace pickup, picking up some milled york plates not noticing the bar. The gentlemen was a former football coach, before he helps me start putting weights into the back of my vehicle, he stops and says to me "Now these have a story to them". He continues "These belonged to my brother who unfortunately passed away, and was a former pro powerlifter. He took good care of these, and they meant a lot to him". I acknowledge and listen to his story about his brother, and I let him know these will be going in my gym and will be lifted every single day.
I go back into his barn to pickup this bar, I look down at the bar. My god, it's an old York bar. The knurling, super aggressive. A little bit of rust, but nothing a little 3 in 1 oil can take care of.
I bring this bar back to my gym and clean it off right away and put it in my rack where it's new home is. In this home it will be used, and lifted with care and power. And eventually it will be passed down to another powerlifter when I am old and grey.
To that powerlifter that sadly left this world, I hope you are looking down and seeing this York bar is being looked after and is being used and being lifted with heavy weights.
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