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Re: YOUR CARS

To: "Bob Lang" <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: YOUR CARS
From: "Graham Stretch" <technical-iwnet@lineone.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:34:02 -0000charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "List Triumph" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <Pine.3.89.10001241125.A538974132-0100000@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
Hi Bob
Profitable way of loosing friends / relatives!! Don,t much care for your
luck always the good ones the drunks get aint it !!!

Graham.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: YOUR CARS


>
> Hmmmm.
>
> Slow day. I'll bite. Here's some info on cars I've owned/still own.
>
> Car               Year of Manu.  Eventual disposition         Nickname
> IH Scout 800A (turbo!)  1966     Death by rot and             Der Rot
Baron
>                                  mechanical failure by
>                                  over 20 folks learning
>                                  to drive!
>
> Pontiac Tempest Custom  1966     FIRE. Someone else torched    Honey
>                                  it. I still miss it.
>
> Olds Cutlass C          1969     Sold for $150                 El Toilet
>
> Pontiac Tempest C Conv. 1966     KILLED by a DRUNK. Owned for
>                                  _4 hours_. No, I'm not the
>                                 drunk that killed it.
>
> Pontiac LeMans          1970     Sold for $500 to a friend     No name
>                                  ...never heard from him
>                                  again!
>
> Chevy Nova              1970     Death by complete electrical  $#!^
>                                  failure. Battery shorted to
>                                  inner fender in a power slide
>                                  on an exit ramp. No flames,
>                                  but car was seriously DEAD.
>
> VW Beetles              1972/73  72 death by rot, 73 - impaled  Herbie 1&2
>                                  by a '68 Impala, but sold to
>                                  a cousin. I never hear from
>                                  cousin anymore!
>
> VW Golf                 1985     Traded... too bad. I wanted    BlueBoy
>                                  to make it a racer.
>
> Saturn SL2              1994     Still own. Want to make into   Name
Wanted
>                                  a racer
>
> Triumph TR6             1974/89  Still own. May be reman. again CarMine
>                                  in the next year or two. Was
>                                  my Dad's car.
>
> Triumph TR6             1973     Was a PI RHD car. Now a        Khartu
>                                  "real race car" autoXr.
>
> Triumph TR6             1969     CC27777. Picked over parts
>                                  donor. Might cut up.
>
> Triumph TR6             1972     PARTS CAR. Might donate to
>                                  CarMine if I decide to make
>                                  the ultimate FSP car. Hi
>                                  Mark.
>
> Hmmm, GM wins over Triumph. I'd better get some more Triumphs! VW is
> close too. What's up with that???
>
> regards,
> rml
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