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Re: Got my dream car.

To: "Glen" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Got my dream car.
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:34:23 -0500
Reply-to: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Hey Glen.... that is about the coolest post to this list I have read in the
last year.... good for you....

Keith Turk 
Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed
Racer) 

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> From: Glen <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Got my dream car.
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:54 PM
> 
> A short story to share with the list.
>       In 1979 I was 17 years old and interested in cars. A young man across
the street bought a 59 bugeye for 
> $500 and set to work restoring it.  In the process, he taught me
everything he knew about car repair as I 
> passed him the wrenches.  I went off to college and he drove off in a
beautiful red bugeye with a tricked out 
> 948cc.
> 
> Thirty years passed.
> 
>       I reconnected with the 'young man' from across the street last month. 
That bugeye had been sitting in 
> his gargage for the last 12 years.  Now green, sporting a bored and
ported 1275cc with a single SU feeding a 
> Rayjay turbocharger.  After a brief period of pathetic pleading from the
kneeling position the car is mine.  
> Trailered to Davis, CA and tucked safely in MY garage.  Total restoration
now under way slated for completion 
> this spring.
>       Multiple queries about the best way to do this or that will hit the list
in the winter months to 
> follow.
>                                       Regards, Glen Byrns

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