Re: What was you most bestest car?
From: BRIGANDBAR (BRIGANDBARaol.com)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:31:09 -0700 (PDT)
 
In a message dated 9/16/2006 5:17:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:
 
1969 Chrysler 300 Convertible. 440 Engine (balanced and blueprinted as a  
graduation gift from my parents) and as fast, or faster than the 426 Hemi at 
top  
end, though slower than that engine in getting there.
 
I left the car behind when I left for my tour in Vietnam (like all young  
military officers, rated aviators in particular) I knew I would just get a new  
one when I got home. One of the biggest car owning mistakes of my lifetime. I  
have an ongoing search for any documentation with a VIN for that car so that I 
 could recover and restore it to its pre-SEAsia tour state. All I have left 
to  show for it is a 1969 Riley Co. KS license plate.
 
Second missed opportunity is one of the old, giant sedan, MB300's. 1956.  Car 
was about a 70 point car, but is was awesome, and my wannabe RR Silver  
Cloud. Even with a RR SC now I'd like to have the MB back.
 
Third car was an Austin Healy 100M. Not nearly as fast as the Chrysler, nor  
as "elegant" as the MB, it was our "rallye" car. All sorts of stopwatches,  
computers, etc. You'all know, the pre-GPS rally stuff. Aluminum body, 
windshield 
 that folded down into a real drag reducing (at least it looked that way)  
position, and a real pain in the ass to keep running through puddles and in wet 
 
weather.
 
Finally, though not a car, an M-??? ca. Korean War 1-ton weapons carrier.  
Sort of like a military pickup truck (extra heavy duty). That was the best farm 
 
truck known to man, though I'm looking at a Unimog or Pinzgauer to replace 
it.  It got sold when we were sentenced to life in the People's Socialist 
Republic of  Kentucky and just couldn't manage to get it moved. Sold it to a 
friend 
who died  and whose wife sold it unaware of his promise that I could buy it 
back when I  wanted to.
 
Dr. Steve

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