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Re: Bench Racing

To: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Bench Racing
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 14:55:11 -0800 (PST)
Ohh yeah.  It would definitely have
possibilities. Years ago there used to be an old
AF Globemaster at the Opa Locka airport near
Miami, and they turned it into a neat restaurant.
 I think there's one like that somewhere in Calif
too.  

--- John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
wrote:
> Dick
> 
> Funny you mentioned a clubhouse to bench race.
> How about a fusalage from an
> old 737 or 707 at Maxton? Hey it's an old
> airbase. Charlotte Air has several
> sitting around. Don't know what they would want
> for one...but I think it
> would be to cool.
> 
> John Beckett
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: John Beckett
> <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>;
> land-speed@autox.team.net
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Bench Racing
> 
> 
> >
> >Hey John, ain't this great bench racing
> though?
> >How these discussions get so heated and
> involved.
> > I can just see the dark-paneled interior of
> the
> >clubhouse.  Three or four pitchers of beer
> about.
> > A pyramid of empty beer cans on one table,
> more
> >prezels on the floor than in the bowls,
> >everything above the six and a half foot mark
> >obscured by cigar smoke, and all us guys
> standing
> >around making all these new proposals,
> shooting
> >each other down, and having a great time;
> >somebody swearing he could have gotten eight
> more
> >miles per hour out of his car if he had just
> >re-jetted, etc, etc, etc. Just peek at the
> last
> >forty messages or so and imagine all those
> >conversations going on in this super, LSR,
> >bench-racing- clubhouse!  I LOVE IT!!!
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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