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Re: What a gift

To: <DEVierling@aol.com>, <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>, <Triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>, <shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net>, <british-cars@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: What a gift
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:14:24 -0600
Cc: <sumnerweisman@rcn.com>
References: <1e3.31185386.2ef5c1cb@aol.com>
> Don "I wish I had my grandfather's Auburn!" Vierling

My grandfather would not buy a car as flashy as an Auburn.  An hour after my
dad bought the Auburn for 25 bucks, his dad told him that he ought to "take
it down to Rondo Avenue and peddle it".  He did finally sell it to race-car
driver Ralph DePalma.  For 75 bucks.

Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net  http://www.mnautox.com/  http://www.lotusowners.com
"TOOLS?  Hell, any fool can work with tools.  It takes a real mechanic to
work with this junk." -Orv Ethier, 1921-2004.  First Shot Naval Vets, Pearl
Harbor Survivor.




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