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Re: Stolen Race Car - Denver, CO

To: kaskas@cox.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Stolen Race Car - Denver, CO
From: WEmery7451@aol.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:06:37 EDT
In a message dated 4/8/04 10:17:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kaskas@cox.net 
writes:

<< At one time each of my daughters had their Spitfire stolen from in front
 of the house in Manhattan Beach.  Both cars were found at the bottom of the
 hill, a half block away. They couldn't  get around the simple hidden toggle
 switch that controlled the coil to dist. wire. >>

Back in the mid 60s, I was heading east on the PA Turnpike towards either the 
Marlborough or Reading tracks.  It was my maiden voyage with my government 
job trailer, built in a Duquesne Light Company steam heating plant.  Do that 
today, and you are fired.  It was a single axle trailer, using one half of a 
house trailer tandem set up.

A tire blew out, and I didn't have a spare at that time.  It was then I 
discovered that house trailers used 14 1/2" tires.  I unhooked the trailer, 
took 
off the wheel, and drove to the next exit.  After finding a house trailer 
dealer 
and getting another tire mounted, I had to get back onto the turnpike, drive 
backwards to the next exit, and then return east to car and trailer.  I was 
thinking about cutting across the medial strip, but then figured that the 
ticket 
wouldn't read right.  

When I returned, there was a trailer truck sitting in front of my trailer and 
car, with pylons surrounding them.  I banged on the cab window, but there 
appeared to be nobody inside.  Unless he got into another vehicle, there is not 
too many places you can go on the turnpike.  I mounted the wheel, kicked the 
pylons out of the way, and went on to the race.  Someone at the track then told 
me that he lost a trailer near that location when he left the scene to get a 
blown out trailer tire replaced.

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