No acounting for some peoples taste is there?
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> From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
> To: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>,
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: The most basic question of all...
> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:22:55 -0800
>
>Okay Chuck... I won't tease you bout the Name no more.... at least you
>didn't steal the name..... Personally I think I was the first So Al
>special... but for some damn reason everyone confuses it with the So Cal
>thing... Can't imagine that....
>
>unbelievable that someone fifty years ago took my Paint scheme too....
>Keith
>
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>> From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
>> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: The most basic question of all...
>> Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 7:16 AM
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>> At 06:38 PM 11/5/1999 -0800, Keith Turk wrote:
>> >we gotta change the Name of that Rotary engined thing you call the USS
>> >Wankle... Chuck....
>>
>> C'mon Keith, what's wrong with the name? (And it's Wankel, as in Felix
>> Wankel, not "wankle".) It's a name that everyone can remember and can
>> connect with the car. It's better than "225" (the last three digits of
>the
>> VIN#) which I'd been calling it for years. It couldn't be another
>"Betsy",
>> since all my Betsy's have been 4 doors, and I never came up with anything
>> more original. If it hadn't been for my partners (one was a Navy LTJG)
>> sticking that name on the windshield to tease me about my "paint" it
>would
>> probably still be nameless. They figured I'd scrape it off as soon as I
>got
>> back from Norway, but it's stuck.
>> I was caught off guard the first time someone called me "Cap'n" at
>Maxton.
>> I'm used to all retired military folks being called either "Sarge" or
>> "Skipper" around home, but it took me a moment to realized that this
>> gentleman was calling me "Cap'n" because of the cars name. After two
>> seasons I think it's here to stay, and after looking at all the names of
>> Bonneville cars over the years it's certainly not all that odd.
>>
>> Chuck Rothfuss
>> ECTA
>>
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