Barrie L. Henderson wrote:
>
> Well, Jay, you really touched a nerve - with your talk about sighting a
> white SIV on the Avenue of the Stars - I was walking back to my car (that
> obscene '75 T-Bird) from the HongKong Bank having exchanged the last of my
> Hong Kong currency for genuine spendable cash - when Lo and Behold - outside
> another bank - in the 'handicapped' space - complete with handicapped tag
> hanging on the rear-view mirror - was - a Series IV GT - in moonstone white
> - and looking positively virginal! Victoria is a relatively small town but
> I had not seen this Alpine before - so I thought I would just wait a while
> and catch the owner/driver to exchange a little 'Alpine' chat. As I waited
> I began to think about "Morte D'Arthur' - the poem by Tennyson - in which he
> says
>
> 'So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur:
> But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm
> Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
> And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him
> Three times, and drew him under in the mere'
>
> Somehow I doubt that a mere Alpine could aspire to the lofty level of
> Excalibur - but after all - this one was clothed in 'white'.
>
> I waited for quite a while for the owner to come out of the bank - but then
> I began to worry - what was this jerk doing 'lurking' around a bank door -
> smoking up a storm - was he the 'getaway' driver standing by his trusty
> Alpine to roar off with the loot? So I went off home (in the obscene
> T-Bird) before he showed up.
>
> I still have no idea who owns/drives that beautifull white GT. But I will
> find out - and tell you all!
>
> HNY to one and all
> Hey Barrie, I know that car and the owner is a SHE and her name is
Wendy!! Not only that it is a rare automatic - too bad you missed that.
I see it most weekends on Gabriola Island in the summer. It used to make
daily trips over the Alberni summit driven by a mill-worker/alpine nut.
The car has been in the east for a few years and returned last year.
HNY to you too
Tony Leeming
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