Hi Nick, I'm passing this on to a few folks...Pretty wild and would make
for a great arm bending story in the bars.
Thanks for shaing it
Hugh R. McAleer
Jonesboro, GA
'68 TR 250, '66? Vitesse, '76 TR 7 Victory Edition
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 19:03:44 -0400 Nickbk@aol.com writes:
>
>Fellow Car Guys-
>
>I heard this story from a friend of mine who swears he read it in the
>paper,
>so it MUST be true.
>
>Seems there was a fellow back on the East coast somewhere, drivin down
>the
>road at a moderate rate, minding his own business. Another fella comes
>up
>behind him, wants to go faster, flashes his lights etc, but the first
>driver
>doesn't get out of the way, or go any faster. (I think we have all
>been in
>this posistion and can understand how the guy in the following car
>would
>feel) So, the fella in the second car comes up behind the first driver
>and
>bangs on his rear bumper and spins the first guy out. As the poor guy
>is
>spinning around, he gets the lic plate number of the offending car and
>reports it. Come to find out, the car belongs to Richard Petty, The
>King of
>NASCAR. (Certainly a guy who would know how to spin a car out of his
>way).
>Now we get to a major dilemma in my mind...do you:
> a) Call Allstate to get the dent in the back of your Buick fixed
>?
> OR
> b) Leave the dent in there, call Richard and have him come over
>and
>autograph it and maintain bragging rights? (What, oh that
>dent....that's
>where Richard Petty spun me out.)
>
>Somehow, in my mind at least, the price-o-that-Buick, just went up...
> Nick in Nor Cal
>
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