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To: mairdie
That is a great picture!

So you kept it all these years?

I've had a couple of British cars, but I love my MGB. I converted it to a 5 speed transmission, so it is even better on the highway (important when I go to car shows). It is also amazing at highway speeds for a 55 year old car.

You and your husband made a very attractive couple as well.

799 posted on 02/18/2018 4:05:55 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Didn’t keep the car OR the husband, marvelous as they both were. That was taken in 1964, when we were all shiny new. Neither of us knew how to drive stick shift when the car dealer opened the showroom door and pointed to that wide open world, but ex, luckily, figured it out. He learned to race it with a book. Made sense. He was getting his PhD in high energy physics. Everything was learnable through books. One race, everyone got back but him. Heart in my feet. Then I saw him marching down the road, muffler over his shoulder. That car rode so low that in the winter you drove at an angle in one of the ruts the big cars left. And it started so hard that he got it going by sliding a barbecue grill underneath. Good memories. Hope your B brings you the best, as well.


807 posted on 02/18/2018 4:37:34 AM PST by mairdie
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