Breath it? We freebased it.
Anthony (ya gotta admit cars are terriffic these days) Tabacco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Urschel" <OSP13@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>
Cc: <Ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Tabacco memories
> Anthony Tabacco wrote:
>
> > Once again, we need to ask Dr. Peabody to set the way-back machine to
1973.
> > Wheezer engines so choked on re-breathers with timing so retarded their
> > carburetor equipped hearts stalled on the showroom floor, fun park
bumpers,
> > bias ply tires and suspensions good enough to almost beat a modern
> > mini-van on a 200 foot skid pad, the ability to go almost 80 or even
100K
> > miles before the trip to the crusher..
>
> Tony,
> Did you perhaps breathe a little too much carbon
> monoxide driving British and Italian sports cars in
> the sixties? My 1971 BMW 1600 needed only a
> radiator hose, a wiper relay, one replacement set of
> wheel bearings, and three sets of radials in 140K miles
> before I traded it in 1979.
>
> And you remembered those assemble-them-yourself
> points so well!
>
> Rich Urschel
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