Keith,
You are absolutely right. There is nothing quite like the sound of a
motor that you have built yourself, or the feeling when you pass someone on
the race track, or go through a corner faster than you've ever gone before.
Maybe it is the Guiness, but if you are ever in South Texas I'd be proud
to buy you another one.
Fisher Jones
At 09:21 PM 5/1/98 PDT, you wrote:
>Some more to add...
>
>Maybe it's too much, and maybe it's just the pint of Guinness
>speaking...
>
>But it's true. Some day this will all be gone....and little
>fun cars made in a far away land will be nothing but a footnote
>to automotive history, something from way back.
>
>And some young people will hear the stories, and wonder
>what it must have been like to actually *drive*...to face
>the real world in such a silly, unsafe, fun little machine...
>and their uncles and grandfathers will speak to them strange
>words, "carburettor", and "Austin Healy"... some will just shrug
>it off, tis nothing more than old things...
>
>...but...
>
>Some will dream of a possiblity that, for them, will probably
>never come...to feel the wind, drive lonely roads, attend rallies,
>build an engine, maybe even go so far as to race...
>
>A possiblity that is open to each and every one of us.
>
>Do history a favour: go put your top down and drive.
>
>-Keith Wheeler
>Team Sanctuary http://www.teamsanctuary.com/
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