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RE: RE: Spitfires in Alaska

To: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>,
Subject: RE: RE: Spitfires in Alaska
From: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:29:04 -0400
You see...I told you so. :-])
Terry Banbury

> ----------
> From:         Laura.G@141.com[SMTP:Laura.G@141.com]
> Sent:         Monday, May 15, 2000 4:14 PM
> To:   Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us
> Cc:   spitfires@autox.team.net; 'Fred Griffiths'
> Subject:      Re: RE: Spitfires in Alaska
> 
> That does sound romantic! 
> 
> Way back when, I dated a fellow in Colorado who had a Spitfire-October, in
> the Rockies-top down, going to the Drive-in...or we'd go up one of the
> dirt roads that overlooked the Springs, all bundled up in down sleeping
> bags and the makings for screw-drivers -top down and stay up there all
> night listening to the radio...those were the days!
> 
> Of course, he was from Northern Michigan, so our Colorado Springs winters
> were nothing for him!
> 
> Laura G.
> >
> >From: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
> >Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:06:51 -0400
> >To: spitfires@autox.team.net,
> >        "'Fred Griffiths'"
> >      <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
> >Subject: RE: Spitfires in Alaska
> >
> >
> >Sounds like the kind anti-wuss that Laura G. needs to meet!  Top down in
> a
> >blizzard, looking for the Aurora Borealis.  How romantic...;-)
> >Terry Banbury
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From:      Fred Griffiths[SMTP:griffco@mail.cadvision.com]
> >> Reply To:  Fred Griffiths
> >> Sent:      Monday, May 15, 2000 4:22 PM
> >> To:        spitfires@autox.team.net
> >> Subject:   Spitfires in Alaska
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hi all,
> >> just got back from a cruise Vancouver, BC to Juneau AK and a few other
> >> ports.  Great weather for the one day we were in Juneau, in fact
> >> Spitfire driving weather!
> >> 
> >> Which brings me to the point - who would own a Spitfire in Juneau
> Alaska
> >> where they tell me it rains 200 inches a year?  Rain on 200 days a
> year,
> >> and cold the rest!  And the only way to get a vehicle in or out of the
> >> city is by ocean going barge for a 3 day trip from Seattle, WA.  Maybe
> >> in a container, not the way we saw pickup trucks lashed onto the top of
> >> containers stacked 4 high on an open barge.
> >> 
> >> But I did see a very nice Spitfire tooling along, top down.  Wish I
> >> could have met the guy and chatted with him.
> >> 
> >> We did see Miattas, Corvettes, etc, but a Spitfire - Boy, that must
> turn
> >> heads in Juneau.
> >> 
> >> Cheers, Fred
> >> --
> >> Fred & Wendy Griffiths,
> >> Calgary, Canada
> >> <a
> href="http://www.cadvision.com/griffco/index.htm";>http://www.cadvision.com
> /griffco/index.htm</a>
> >> mailto: griffco@cadvision.com
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> 

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