Hey Glen.... that is about the coolest post to this list I have read in the
last year.... good for you....
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed
Racer)
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> From: Glen <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Got my dream car.
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:54 PM
>
> A short story to share with the list.
> In 1979 I was 17 years old and interested in cars. A young man across
the street bought a 59 bugeye for
> $500 and set to work restoring it. In the process, he taught me
everything he knew about car repair as I
> passed him the wrenches. I went off to college and he drove off in a
beautiful red bugeye with a tricked out
> 948cc.
>
> Thirty years passed.
>
> I reconnected with the 'young man' from across the street last month.
That bugeye had been sitting in
> his gargage for the last 12 years. Now green, sporting a bored and
ported 1275cc with a single SU feeding a
> Rayjay turbocharger. After a brief period of pathetic pleading from the
kneeling position the car is mine.
> Trailered to Davis, CA and tucked safely in MY garage. Total restoration
now under way slated for completion
> this spring.
> Multiple queries about the best way to do this or that will hit the list
in the winter months to
> follow.
> Regards, Glen Byrns
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