Re: Justification for higher education?

["Sheffield Corey" <SHEF@omdc.gso.uri.edu>]

>Beautiful, yes, no question!  "Most" beautiful, on the 'tother hand...hmmmm...
>And if I had to have an old Jag inflicted upon me, my choice would run towards
>an XKSS or a D-type, or a C-type (XK120C to be precise), or any of the other XKs
>before an E-type.  Even a MKVii before an E, but then again, whatever floats
>yer boat.

AHH Barto you have brought a tear to my eye,

	The first car I ever owned was a '55 Mk VII with an XK140 type C
or was it MC engine 4 speed and a LaCocque(sp?) overdrive actuated by a small
crystaline switch on the burly walnut dashboard(facia, whatever). I traded my
'66 Honda 305 scrambler and $200.00 to a law student at the Uni. of Ari. who
was in deep "duedue" with the IRS(the taxman for you non-'mericans). I've had
that beast flat out at 140mph, and my best buddy and myself and some o' them
lil' white pills drove from RI to San Diego, CA in 36 hrs in Sept. '68, never
saw a REO the whole way and radar was not in vogue yet. The sad part is that on
the way from San Diego to Tucson at a sedate 125mph number 5cyl. opened a 4"
crack. I played with it for a while until I was drafted out of college(yes
kids, before the draft lottery they could draft you out of college for not
completing 1/4th of your 4 year requirement every year) and had to put the car
in storage. 4 years later(I enlisted in the Air Farce the day the Army was to
get me) I went back to Tucson to start the sleeving of the block to find that
the folks who had offered to store my car for free had sold itfor parts claiming
they were told I'd been KIA'd. So my first car, the car I planned on taking my
grandchildren for rides in was no more; and their wasn't a damn thing I could
realistically do about it. What a car that thing was, it was confused by
many(numbskulls) as a Rolls Royce that went like a "bat outta hell". For its
time, dispite to two piece windscreen, it had many innovative features that
didn't make it to 'merican cars until the late '60s.

	Alright alright here's the Audi content. After crackin' #5 cylinder I
drove the car for the next 4 months; it used as much water as gasoline, but I
was a struggling student type. I guess I figured then: "who needs 6 cylinders 5
work just fine:-) Turbocharging does help a bunch!!

	Thanx Bart you've made my afternoon...happy motoring,

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