A Studabaker Commander parked beside me, It was jet black and absolutely
gorgeous !
He fired that thing up and almost blew the Spit over !!!
All the folks were real nice, I couldn't help but think of ALL the MONEY
these people had in the cars. There I sat with my LBC knowing I had a max of
6k in my whole car.
There were cars with more than that in the PAINT JOB !
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou
[mailto:dougnad@bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:46 PM
To: Craig Smith; 'Joe Curry'; FODFARTS@cs.com; spitfires@autox.team.net
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Spitfire classes at shows
You're lucky all those American Iron owners didn't beat you up... :-)
Doug braun
At 01:13 PM 8/22/00 -0500, Craig Smith wrote:
>Ok,
>I got you all beat !
>There is a local drive in restaurant called Sonic.
>I think they are a chain, they try to bring back the 50's stuff...
>Anyway, I was going by Saturday in my 71 Spit, and saw that they were
having
>a cruise in !
>
>So I did !
>
>Should have seen that,,,, I was the only English iron in the lot !
>
>Over 50 cars, Chevels, Cuda's, Camaro's, Hot Rod's, pick ups the whole
>gamut.
>
>My little red Spit sitting there with it's little four cylinders up against
>a 600 cubic inch Mountain Motor in a 72 Firebird with a blower as big as
the
>whole block of the Triumph.....
>
>I did get about $.50 in my bucket for viewers choice...
>
>I didn't win anything, but my daughter and I loved it .
>
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