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Subject: Mini models
From: "Daren Stone, D2 Mfg. Engr. C5/6, 5-9521" <DSTONE@SC9.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 08:45:34 PST
     Wayne recently writing about his mini model sparked a
     memory; When I was about 8, the big posh toy store in
     old downtown (Stockton, Ca.) was Pardini's, and they
     had a fairly large display of Corgi model cars. One day
     with nose pressed up to the glass case, I spied
     something odd amongst the recognizable Ferraris,
     Lamborghinis. When I asked my older brother what this
     was, he said "Mini", and when on about how they were
     giant killers, etc. I made my mind up right then &
     there that I wanted that model now, and a real one
     later. But $2 was the price tag, & that was a long way
     off then.
          Twenty years fogged the memory, but somehow the 
     little Mini became mine within a few weeks. White with
     black doors, boot & bonnet (that all open), it had tiny
     jewelled headlights and a red interior with seats that
     actually folded forwards. This was my pride & joy, my
     favorite possession, and my first in what was to become
     quite a few Corgi cars. 
          I still have the Mini, a little dinged up, but the
     headlights still sparkle & the bonnet still opens. And
     until I can have the real thing, it'll do just fine.

          cheers-  
                 dstone@sc9.intel.com


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