Lets see, a "Real" Larry in Florida? Naaah I don't think so.
The Really Real Real Larry (Really)
>>>>On 3/2/00 4:58 PM so and so (woodrat) said. (And I quote:)
>Since "achieving" my Frogeye last month Ive inhaled bout everything printed
>about the marketing history of the car in North America. A nagging question
>remains. It is of no serious consequence, but I cant get over it. So just
>in case there is anyone near my age on the list, here go: I was a carless
>sophomore in college in a small central PA town in 1958. One day while
>walking to the only bar that sold underage, I passed a car dealership and
>in the window was a blue bugeye. I went in and the salesman reluctantly
>showed me the car.( In those days no college kids had any money.) A dream
>was born. I stopped by that window every day. Two years later I bought a
>very used (up?) TR 3, but thats a whole different story. Its taken me
>fourty some years to rectify that mistake. Anyway this was a very small
>town and Im sure the Sprite wasnt sitting in a BMC dealership. The nearest
>one of those would have been in Pittsburgh, a 100 miles away. My memory
>says it was a Pontiac-Olds-Buick agency. So does anyone know if BMC had an
>early hook up with a Detriot manufacturer back then? My impression was that
>that sort of multi dealership didnt happen till many years later. Is my
>mind gone? What the hell was a LBC doing in a small town Detriot iron
>store? The Real Larry in Florida.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
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Neuropsychiatry Section
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