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Re: Got my dream car.

To: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Got my dream car.
From: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:37:28 -0700
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net, grbyrns@ucdavis.edu
References: <199909212238.PAA15273@shorter.eng.sun.com>
Reply-to: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
I just bought a new Ford F-150.  Does this mean I'm going to back over my own
Bugeye?
Mike MacLean-60 Sprite

Bryan Vandiver wrote:

> That's beautiful man! (uncontrollable sobbing) I hope you and your bugeye have
> many (sob) happy (sob) years (sob) together!
>
> Oh - BTW, when you get it finished and start driving it around... Don't ever
> park behind a Ford F150, especially if it's white.
>
> Regards - Bryan Vandiver (59-sprite) in need of new bonnet
> San Jose, CA
>
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Got my dream car.
> >
> >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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