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RE: The Red Car

To: "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: The Red Car
From: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:06:19 -0600
Reply-to: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Does anyone remember a book by Ann Taylor and Fern Moss ? About two young
woman in the 50's who build a sports car in their living room and then go
rallying .I can't remember the tittle . 
TIA , Mark Hanna
        AN5L/13731
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 6:41 AM
> To:   pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com; RBHouston@aol.com;
> Spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: The Red Car
> 
> In a message dated 99-05-11 03:40:48 EDT, pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
> writes:
> 
> > I read this as a boy also. I blame it for my British car addiction. I've
> >  been trying to find a copy for my son to read.
> 
> Now I've got to read it.  I blame "Kings of the Road", by Ken Purdy, given
> to 
> me when I was 8 or so by my father when I got tears in my eyes at a car
> show 
> because we couldn't take home a Bugatti.  He goes into why big, bloated 
> American cars are dangerous, and will suffer due to a lack of innovation
> and 
> foreign competition.  And he wrote it in the 1950's.

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