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Re: Good Story

To: "db" <dbilesky@home.com>, "alpine list" <alpines@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Good Story
From: "Greg Locke" <glocke@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:43:06 +1200
Hi db

you mention bumperettes...

Were these standard fittings desingned for alpines? I am intersted in these
for the racing humber...do you or anyone else have any photos or information

Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: db <dbilesky@home.com>
To: alpine list <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2001 03:44
Subject: Good Story


> When I bought my Alpine...7 years ago... is was after a disaster struck my
> previous SV.
> A nasty T-bone turned it into a parts car.
>
> I drove to the address of the seller, a wreck of a house with an
> old broken down garage.
> We walked through the old garage to a door at the back.
> This opened into a new, hidden secondary garage with a restored Alpine in
> the middle.
> Quite an amazing site.     He was selling because he felt too old to own
it.
>
> I looked at this car a could swear it was my old alpine.
> By this time I had sold the old SV carcass.
>
> The colour was the same, everything was exact, except my old one did not
> have wires.
> I bought it.
>
> After discussion we came to the conclusion that we had met each other in
the
> last couple of years (now 9 years ago).  As it turned out he had bought
> parts off my old t-boned wreck.
>
> The Alpine I bought had the bumperettes off my old car.
>
>
>
> http://sunbeamalpine.org/galleries/profiles/dougbilesky/dougbilesky.html
>
> [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of
tbilesky1.jpg]

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