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Re: More on Prices (long winded)

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Subject: Re: More on Prices (long winded)
From: mit-eddie!cbmvax.commodore.com!jesup@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Randell Jesup)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 14:59:08 EST
>Hmmm, I wouldn't expect an SOL like you to spread vicious rumors and lies,
>Roger.  James Dean died in a Porsche 550 Spyder (car 120 btw scott :^) along
>route 7 in northern California in the late 1950's.  This was a few years
>before the Cobras came out in 1964.  Cobra's got a boost because of Carrol
>Shelby, and the fact that they are damn fast and only 350 were built.
>(numbers like 3.8 sec for 0-60, 13.2 for 1/4 mile and 165 top speed)

        ~1000 I think, definitely more than 350.  Damn sexy cars, too bad
they cost more than a house (at least around here).  Saw one in the company
parking lot - not a replica.  It was a 289 in need of restoration, and had 3-4"
leather lap belts.

Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"


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