[Spridgets] Fun with RHD - Pt.I

[HealeyRick]

Don't remember if I've told this one here before:

I have a good friend we'll call Bob, because that's not his real name. 
Bob's
an ordinary guy who has one extraordinary talent. He's actually 
been able to
make money by diligently tracking down rare sports cars, 
particularly Austin
Healeys, and selling them at a profit. As a result, 
he's had some pretty
interesting cars in his garage over the years. One 
of the most spectacular
was a Ford GT40 that he imported from England. 
We're not talking about the
foo foo Ford GT here, but a real 
honest-to-God GT40 race car that was built
as a continuation car by Safir Engineering and featured a 351 Cleveland
topped by a bunch of Webers about 10 inches behind your head. White, 
with
blue over-the-roof stripes.
     
Bob decides he's going to drive it to the Lime Rock vintage races. Now
this might not be a problem, but did you forget I said "racecar"? Car 
would
run only on race gas and registering the car for the street was 
impossible
because it violated every reg the EPA, DOT and the DMV could 
think of and
some that they didn't even have a chance to come up with 
yet. Not to be
deterred, Bob slapped a dealer's plate on it, but since 
the car was
fiberglass without anyplace to put a magnet on it and no 
license plate
holder, the only place to put the plate was in the rear 
window. You can
imagine how small the window is on a 40" tall car, so 
basically from the rear
it looked like no plate at all on the car.

                                        
(to be cont ....)

Rick


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