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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Lousy timing, but...

2007-12-13 by Mark Pring

I've got a 1986 Toyota Hilux which has done nearly
200,000 miles!

Mark
--- lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 12/12/2007 10:00:11 P.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,  
> atm655@verizon.net writes:
> 
> But in my case owning and maintaining 2  late model
> Ferraris (that cost more 
> than my 5 bedroom, pool home) plus a 2007 
> Aston-Martin, these gadgets are 
> more than a  bargain.
> 
> 
> 
> When I was young I had a '72 Dino, a 59 XK-150 Fixed
> Head Jag, 9 Porsches  
> and a Pantera. Now I have a 99 Expedition with 165k
> miles on it, a Escape with  
> 30k miles on it and a scratch built Harley. I don't
> give a shit about cars  
> anymore. Can't drive more than one at a time. I'd
> sell the Expedition, but I  
> probably couldn't give it away. I had a 2003 Jag S
> type with 400 HP. Sold it and 
>  bought the Escape. The neighbors are still
> scratching their heads over that  
> one.
>  
> I can fit 4 M-400s in the Expedition and have done
> so. It also holds 3  
> Dobermans just fine. They drool and shed all over
> the inside. Dogs were never  
> allowed in the Jag. That's why it had to go. I like
> dogs better than cars. I  like 
> Mellotrons better than cars too.
>  
> I wish I had kept the Dino and the 59 XK-150. They'd
> be worth a whole lot  
> now.
>  
> The old Jag was the best chick magnet ever. Like the
> Dino, I did a complete  
> restoration on it. I'd drive into Georgetown (DC)
> and young women would run 
> into  the street and ask for rides. No one knows how
> to build testosterone into 
> cars  more than the British and the Italians.
>  
> Working on #386... the Phallotron. Bigger, bolder
> and harder than hell to  
> get around to.
>  
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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