Zahid Ahsanullah (zahid@mozart.sps.mot.com) sent in:
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> Rites of Passage
>RITES OF PASSAGE - In which Bob discovers that, in large part, it is
>both unsafe and illegal to drive old sports cars - By David J. Bedard,
>from Automobile Magazine, February 1988.
>
>I see it coming, but there isn't anything I can do to talk him out of
>it. It's a rite of passage every male endures, a kind of mechanical
>Bar Mitzvah, only it comes enough years past thirteen that the victim
>ought to know better. My friend Bob Wheeler is about to buy an old
>sports car, a 1972 Triumph Spitfire.
(snipped a story about someone unappreciative of the intricacies of
owning a '72 Spitfire)
Enjoyed the story. I will make sure my '72 Spit never sees it--she
doesn't need any new ideas.
Pat Willems
pbw@chong.dseg.ti.com
Flower Mound, TX
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