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Re: Joy Secs

To: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Joy Secs
From: The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:11:33 -0500
Paul,
  My wife gave me that same book! She got really ticked when she caught me
reading an issue of Classic and Sportscar hidden 'tween the book's cover. I
think she finally just gave the book to the guy that cleans our pool.
Michael, New Bern, NC
At 08:13 PM 11/26/96 GMT, you wrote:
>>A long, long time ago, in a place far away, David E. Davis, (an
>>automotive scribe, of sorts) coined a phrase, "joy secs," to 
>>describe those brief moments in a car enthusiast's otherwise mundane 
>>life, when something happens that is The Way Things Should Be. You 
>>know -- the time you stayed in third instead of shifting down to 
>>second and hit the apex of That Corner in your daily commute just 
>>right, only 7 mph faster than ever before, and it all felt soooo 
>>smooth, no pucker factor at all, just absolute perfection! However 
>>briefly,  life was really, really good. That's a Joy Sec. That's why 
>>I have my LBC.
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>That's funny, my wife bought me a book called "The Joy of Secs", I 
>think, about 20 years ago.  Nothing in it about MGs, though.
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