Boom Boom
Mike
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From: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, 15 March 1999 23:25
Subject: Re: Marrying cars? Is this true?
>It's always sad to read of unrequited love. Just imagine if people could
>marry cars. Every girl could have her NSU Prinz or Renault Dauphine
>(possibly mounted on a white Dodge Charger) and every boy could long for
>the allure of a Vanden Plas Princess( oh, those Toyota Crowned heads! So
>Bently Continental!) who would of course be the daughter of a Daimler
>Sovereign. And ah, the romance of Alfa Romeo and Guilietta, what a Duetto!
> And while we're on the topic of theatre what about Rex Harrison in My
>Datsun Fairlady? And what Rambler Rebel could resist the allure of the
>lovely Borgward Isabella or the clarion call of a Volvo Amazon?
>
>Rich folks could be spotted with their Daimler Consorts (with a Toyopet for
>a lapdog? Or an AC Greyhound for the hunt with the Austin Countryman and
>Ford Squire?) and perhaps Hindustan Ambassadors could long for a Ford
>Consul and the pitter patter of Fiat Bambinos? But wait, could one get
>into trouble for crossing a State Line with a Morris Minor or Alfa Junior?
>But then wouldn't it be good always to have a Lincoln for President?
>
>Your deceased Aunty Rover (she who was in her youth a Hillman Minx in
>Sunbeam Stilettos) could well have been an Alvis Grey Lady who returns as a
>Silver Ghost or Wraith.
>
>And what would happen if a Nissan President was found in the same carpark
>as a (limited production, early 70's) Monica 590? Would an Armstrong
>Siddley Starr Sapphire investigate?
>
>Finally, what I'd like to know is how the union would be consummated. I've
>completely ****** a couple of cars but I'm not sure if it's the same thing.
>
>I could go on but I think you've suffered enough
>
>Peter Westcott
>
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>From: Ajhsys@aol.com
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: This is true!
>Date: Sunday, 14 March 1999 1:00
>
>This post was just in This Is True! which ONLY prints true items from news
>storys. I thought it fit our previous thread perfectly!
>
>HONK IF YOU LOVE ME: When Buster Mitchell's girlfriend walked out on him,
> he went back to his beloved and decided to make it legal with her.
> Mitchell, 28, went to the county courthouse in Knoxville, Tenn., and
> started filling out the marriage license application. He listed his
> fiancee's birthplace as Detroit, her father as "Henry Ford" and her
> blood type as "10-W-40" before the clerk stopped him -- Mitchell was
> trying to get a license to marry his car, a '66 Ford Mustang GT. "Why
> can't we do the good ol' boy thing and marry our cars and trucks?" he
> lamented later. He plans to try again elsewhere. (AP) ...And all this
> time we thought the "good ol' boy thing" was to marry your cousin.
>
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>Allen Hefner
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>
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