"I had a '52 Ford clunker (totaled on my 17th birthday [distracted by a girl
kissing my stomach]), a '53 Chevy clunker, and a '54 Plymouth clunker, and a
'56 100M unofficially gifted to me by my father, the original
purchaser. I drove the Healey until my driver's license couldn't stand it
anymore. The clunkers were cheap purchases or payments for fixing friend's
or friend's parent's cars. My theory was among the two remaining clunkers, I
could have at least one running at any time."
I had a stable in college with the same theory about at least one running at
a time, but it didn't always work, decent TR4a, less decent MGB-GT, and
newer Kawasaki motorcycle, I remember when they all crapped out at the same
time for various reasons and I had no money to fix, so much for the at least
one running theory.
The smarter guys of course had a stable of the same cars, VWs, Sprites,
Corvairs, (there was a guy a couple of blocks away that had half dozen or so
Crosleys) etc. and when they had a problem with one they just combined
working parts from other cars and got back on the road.
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
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