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Re: What's in a name..... (waaaay off topic)

To: "ROBERT G. HOWARD" <mgbob@juno.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name..... (waaaay off topic)
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:47:47 +0000
ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Dec 97 13:07:42 -0000 Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> writes:
> >On 17/12/97 9:04 am ROBERT G. HOWARD said
> >
>   Old Uffa must have been a wild man. The stories that circulated about
> him make one think that he would have spent a large number of his days in
> gaol had he not been such a talented designer and writer.  I have a copy
> of "Uffa Fox's Second Book," which I just went through looking for pics
> of him on land. Plenty of them, with clients, crew, in the UK, Canada and
> more, with an airplane, but not one MG in sight. If he did, I'm sure that
> it was supercharged, had a tach with the calibrations beginning at 4M,
> and he beat the living daylights out of it before taking it in for
> warranty work.
> Bob

As I recall, it was Uffa Fox that caught Princess (soon to be Queen) Elizabeth 
out with a whoopee cushion.  Apparently, she never spoke to him again.

PaulH.



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