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I had a '60 bug-eyed Sprite. It was great! I think a Singer Sewing Machine had a bigger engine (I think top speed on a straightaway was around 75)but MY GAWD it was fun! It could drive in circles on one side of a divided city boulevard. And sitting in it was just like standing behind a woman, peering over her shoulder, and looking down her dress. It was even more fun than Maxwell Smart's signature car: a Sunbeam Tiger. And it made driving a real adventure. I showed up at my high school senior prom with grease to the elbows.
Commented Oct 17, 2009 on Triumph Spitfire and GT6 at Car Lust
Triumph Spitfire and GT6
This is the car I wanted 30+ years ago, so much that I still have this brochure I got from the dealer when it was new. I was 19, full of vinegar, and needed an "image" car. The Mustang II I had was fun, but I wanted something more sophistimacated and sexy. Still crazy after all these years, I ...
Hmmmmmmmm. What do YOU think?
Commented Feb 28, 2009 on No Posting Today at ShrinkWrapped
No Posting Today
Discuss among yourselves: Are Barack Obama's exaggerations and outright falsehoods the typical stock in trade misstatements of politicians, intentional lies, unintentional errors, or something novel to our political experience? I hope to post my response tomorrow.
AND... nobody has to put up a dummy TV antenna so the Joneses won't pity him.
Commented Nov 27, 2008 on Giving Thanks at ShrinkWrapped
Giving Thanks
It is part of human nature to take for granted those things that we have and to complain bitterly about those things we lack. Our forefathers were wiser than us, in many ways. Technology had not yet rendered them distant from nature nor left them relatively immunized from the vicissitudes of l...
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