Alan,
Many years back while travelling on the Jersey Turnpike, I stopped for
gas at a service area. At that time you could not pump your own gas.
While filling the tank the attendant noticed my club jacket and said "I
owned one of them Austin Harleys once!!". You have to love it.
Doug
> I've met more people who used to have "an uncle who had one of
> those"
> than people I know on this list!
>
> My favorite was when I was driving my BJ8 eight years ago in
> Vallejo,
> CA, a guy pulls up next to me at a red light, in a 1981 white
> Lesabre
> (imagine), and says to me "hey, is that a kit car?"
>
> I love my country... the world's capital of spit-ball assumptions
> being freely vocalized.
>
> By the way, if you can believe it.... Vallejo CA is the town
> directly
> south of Napa, world famous wine country and home to some of the
> most
> famous celebrities in the world.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
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