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Re: Joy Secs

To: reecau@whidbey.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Joy Secs
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 20:13:47 GMT
>A long, long time ago, in a place far away, David E. Davis, (an
>automotive scribe, of sorts) coined a phrase, "joy secs," to 
>describe those brief moments in a car enthusiast's otherwise mundane 
>life, when something happens that is The Way Things Should Be. You 
>know -- the time you stayed in third instead of shifting down to 
>second and hit the apex of That Corner in your daily commute just 
>right, only 7 mph faster than ever before, and it all felt soooo 
>smooth, no pucker factor at all, just absolute perfection! However 
>briefly,  life was really, really good. That's a Joy Sec. That's why 
>I have my LBC.

That's funny, my wife bought me a book called "The Joy of Secs", I 
think, about 20 years ago.  Nothing in it about MGs, though.



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