Greg,
I've never met you, but I LIKE your style!!
Mike Hudson '67 - 1600/R20
----- Original Message -----
From: <gregs672liter@netzero.net>
To: <mark@dealermats.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: what's great about solvang and shasta show
> I've owned my '67 2000 for over 20 years. I remember the first Shasta
show I
> went to, back in the '80's, when half of the people there camped in tents.
> There was a category for "who's car would you most like to drive home
today."
> There were some beautiful cars there... perfect pain, perfect chrome,
detailed
> engines, all the interior matched... you get the picture. The car I
chose?
> Mine. Why? Cause that car has my blood in it... literally. I know every
nut
> and bolt. I remember every turn we've taken, every 7000rpm blast, every
trial
> and tribulation, the miles, the races, the friends... that car is in my
blood.
> Nearly all of the friends I have made in the last 20 years are from
Roadsters.
> I have friends in Oregon and Canada who love me like a brother, but whom I
see
> only occasionally, yet I feel connected to them all. I am currently
redoing a
> friend's '70 in time for the Shasta show. I met one of my best friends
> through a Roadster, the same one that I finished last year that you all
have
> yet to see, but will hopefully come to Shasta this year. I will redo my
car
> this winter ("it's about time!" she says), but it willl never win a show.
I
> have never won a thing at any show, nor have I won in a raffle (why do I
buy
> tickets? Just cause!). I did win the Modesto Coast once... that was
cool.
> My Roadster is a metaphore for my life... good times, tough times, but you
are
> always commited and never stopping. She is my automotive partner, a
friend
> with whom I dance in tight corners, and who answers the call when I drop
the
> throttle and make her scream. I fell in love with that car the day I saw
it.
> It has never changed. It is that simple.
> Greg Burrows
> 67 2000 #588
> Bonney Lake, WA
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