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Re: [TR] Anal retentives and Trailer Queens addition

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Subject: Re: [TR] Anal retentives and Trailer Queens addition
From: "Nolan" <foxtrapper@ispwest.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:07:46 -0500
I have a total rat Spitfire myself, and fearlessly enter it in shows.  I 
encourage people to sit in it, explore it, and enjoy it.  It really makes 
some folks day to actually sit in a car at a car show.  Watching someone 
getting that first time feel of a british car, man, that's something to 
watch.  Doesn't matter if they're 12 years old, or 96.  Depending on the 
show we might even go for a ride, and they might drive it.

Since I tend to haunt the same shows year after year it's become quite a 
popular car.  Other regulars at the shows know it and know me.  So it's 
nothing unusual for me to see the car across a field with another 
participant sitting a person in my car, or opening up my bonnet to show them 
things.

Maybe if my car was a priceless treasure I'd feel differently about letting 
people enjoy it so intimately, but I hope not.  Oh sure, I've found my 
steering wheel sticky with ice cream before.  And I check around under the 
hood to make sure everything is ready before I start it up and drive home. 
But I don't mind.  Not at all.

I keep meaning to make a nice sign that says something like "hop in" or 
"come explore".


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