On Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 08:29 PM, Dick J wrote:
> I can go one better than that. Won't help Scott, but it's a cool
> memory. When I was in high school I had an old Ford flathead. Nice
> car, souped up a little bit, but not really fast. I dated this
> cheerleader for a couple of months and got along great with her dad.
> He was the number one stock car racer in our area and I'd sit in his
> living room, or out in his shop and we'd talk cars for hours.. He ran
> a flathead merc coupe on the track. One day his daughter dumped me
> for a guy that I hated, and her father hated even more. He had a 57
> Ford with a 312, and needless to say, could suck my flathead up his
> tailpipes. Her dad, wanting to "slam" this new boyfriend, swapped the
> mild motor out of my car one Saturday afternoon and dropped in one of
> his really hot mercs. That night, I found my ex girlfriend (his
> daughter) tooling around with her new boyfriend. Just past the A&W we
> got on it. Best I can remember, his headlights were both visible in my
> rear view mirror when I hit!
> third
> gear. The following Monday, he was almost reduced to tears when he
> checked under my hood and found my same old flathead in there. "But -
> - - -he'd outrun me so bad so many times before???" He finally went
> to college and became a preacher.
> Dick J
>
Okay, Dick, I think you win with this story. A true "sleeper" car for
one weekend -- great!
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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