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Re: Jack Wheeler's Car, Embarrassing moments...

To: DLMAssoc@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Jack Wheeler's Car, Embarrassing moments...
From: Jeff Snook <jsnook@wcnet.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 10:05:17 -0400
Don,

Congratulations!  I'm sure your little "episode" could be
described as being so elated with your new race car you just got
too excited.  We sometimes call them "senior moments"!!!  Lots of
vintage racing in Florida, so you should not have much trouble
finding what to do with the TR4.

Jeff

DLMAssoc@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Amici:
> 
> Yesterday was a big day... Jack Wheeler delivered his 1990 SCCA EProd TR4A to
> my garage and I spent the rest of the day at the clinic being tested for
> heart, brain and everything else (they found a heart but weren't sure about a
> brain).
> 
> For some reason, while we were getting ready to take the car off the trailer,
> I began to feel light headed and sat down on a tire, then woke up on the
> ground looking up at my wife and poor Jack.  How embarrasing... No idea what
> caused it, but apparently I scared the daylights out of my wife and probably
> had Jack wondering if he'd get paid for the car if I was actually dead.  Jack
> was great throughout the whole thing and very cleverly got the EMS guys to
> help push the car into the garage.
> 
> Anyway, I seem to be OK but am destined for lots more tests when I get back to
> Florida, but more importantly, I'm now the proud owner of Jack's TR4A racecar.
> Thanks to those of you who helped me decide... you all seemed to be correct in
> your assessments of the car.  On the surface it shows the results of many
> races since it's last paint job,  but underneath it's a very, very serious
> racecar.
> 
> Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it back to Florida and decide
> what to do with it once I get it home.
> 
> Thanks all...
> Don Marshall

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