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Re: [Healeys] Nicolas Cage nearly killed Himself in his favourite

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Nicolas Cage nearly killed Himself in his favourite
From: Carole and Jonathan Quandt <fourqz@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:00:05 -0800
What's wrong with this picture? Cage's favorite car had a Ford V8
engine and an automatic transmission and yet he still referred to it
as an Austin Healey?

Manly story. Girlie car.



--Carole Quandt/Healey wife.





On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Patton Dickson wrote:

> I've liked him since Raising Arizona
>
>
> The whole article is here
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?
> in_article_id=5
> 09071&in_page_id=1889
>
> *I nearly killed myself in my favourite car.* I had an Austin
> Healey with a
> Ford V8 engine placed into it like a makeshift AC Cobra. Then I
> hired a
> mechanic to put in an automatic gearbox. I was driving on the 405 in
> Hollywood, went to light a cigarette and my hand got stuck in the
> transmission. I shifted the car from drive into park and the car
> fish-tailed
> on the freeway. I went into a 180-degree spin and ended up facing
> traffic
> head on. All I could see was this huge truck coming towards me; the
> driver
> got on the CB loudspeaker and screamed at me to put the car into
> reverse. I
> was in total shock and I just did it. I reversed all the way back
> until I
> found an exit. It was crazy. I could have died  so for a while I
> was in a
> very odd state of mind. It's probably the most dangerous thing I've
> survived.
>
>
> --
> Patton Dickson - http://Austin-Healeys.com - Plano, TX
> 1957 Austin-Healey 100-Six "Built to run 'til the road wears out."
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