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To: Chode; Carriage Hill; All

F1 still crapping on Mikey A. They sure hold a long grudge against him.

Saw a show last night about the nasa Moon program and the Mercury 7 Astronauts were sold new Corvettes for $1.00 (except John Glenn who got a Station Wagon for being a Family Man) on the condition that they would trade the car back in for the newest model so the Dealer could sell the traded in Vette to a retail customer...


6,510 posted on 01/10/2025 12:34:55 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: mabarker1
"...Saw a show last night about the nasa Moon program and the Mercury 7 Astronauts were sold new Corvettes for $1.00 (except John Glenn who got a Station Wagon for being a Family Man) on the condition that they would trade the car back in for the newest model so the Dealer could sell the traded in Vette to a retail customer..."

They didn't buy the Vettes, the leased them. NASA got bent out of shape when GM gave Allen Shephard a '62 Vette because they don't allow their 'Nauts to endorse any product, and accepting a free car might be viewed as an endorsement. So GM leased them their Vettes for $1 a year. Which NASA didn't carp about because they didn't "own" the car.

6,513 posted on 01/10/2025 1:05:18 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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