Twofer

[Unka Bart]

Hi Doyt

>Hi Bart!  I am an old man in Ohio,

Wow!  I thought that Bob Myers and I were the only old men on the list, and
he's so much older than I am that I'm giving us both the benefit of the
doubt...

>He fell down and injured his back, which made it impossible to operate a
>clutch, so he put the car on the market and started looking for an
>automatic S6. That's when I got the car. I had to compete with a collector
>in a nearby state, and ended up paying 5 grand. But it was like new and he
>could prove it.
>
>I put in a Timmerman Shrappnel Knobben, and got it working really well, and
>then I let the seller drive his old car one more time. He went crazy with
>disbelief at the incredible acceleration, saying he would never have sold
>the car if he had known it could perform like that. By then, his back had
>improved and he could push a clutch if he was motivated.
>
>I am enjoying my dream car, which I never ever expected to own. To me it is
>still a $36,000 dream, sitting on the show room floor of my mind .......and
>now I proudly drive it every day.  Life is good.

Amen to that, my brother, Life is GOOD!!!  I feel the same way about my
911, and
felt that way about each of my V8Qs!  Even if someone else has already
taken the
bit financial hit, a $60K car is still a $60K car to me, is speaks a level
of quality
that makes its current market price irrelevant.

By the way, Sheffield Corey has a car that I once loved beyond all reason,
a '66 Corvette (even if his is a coupe, and not a rag-top).  There're a
couple of pics of my old heart-throb at http://www.erols.com/loborojo,
along with my 27,000 current V8 (with 4 driven wheels).

>of cars that I once sold, and I drive them on occasion.
>It is a peculiar sort of madness. My Avion travel trailer weighs 7,000
>pounds, and when I pull it with my 454 Suburban, the horsepower never seems
>to be enough. And my 76 Westfalia has it's moments of questionable power.
>But they are all very wonderful vehicles in their own way. The best
>combination is the 454 Suburban pulling the 600 pound Cox camper. And it
>gets 7 miles per gallon!

That's what my bus gets at a steady 70 mph.  'Course, it burns diesel...

>Thank you for clarifying the spelling of that Latin phrase

I'm old, thus I forget easily which one that was.  Was it, perchance,
"Illigitimi non-carborundum?"  (Don't let the bastards wear you down?)

yer kindly ol' Unka Bart