Mark,
Hey I ressemble that remark about red cars, but mine was honestly Spanish
Red, that dried blood lookin color.
BTW, I worked w/a guy who won a '67 XKE in a poker card game and still has
it w/about 14,000 original miles. And I sawz it wit mine very own eyez.
'66 Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Hatch <mhatch@ics.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters-digest@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: You are some future owner's PO...
> Hi all,
>
> Although I'm new to most of you, I been on the list since '93 when there
> was maybe 3 or 4 messages a week ( 2 of which were Tom's!) and less than
> 150 of us on the list. Sure has changed...
>
> I got to admit, like most of you, I find PO stories amusing. With 20-20
> hindsight, it is always hard to believe what POs did or did not do. I have
> my own PO story... Evidently the PO of my '69 2000 won the car in a poker
> game up in Blackhawk, CO. Subsequently, he drove it around the block and
> nailed all four pistons with his exhaust valves. The head was shaved .080
> on the bottom only and reinstalled. The cam was binding because it needed
> another .080 shave on the top... For the curious, Tom used to have the
head
> for instructional purposes. I like to joke that luck was not on his side
> that night when he won that hand!
>
> But let's remember that one of the benefits of the Internet is that it
> allows communities to form that span the world. This also means that your
> PO, or someone that knows your PO may be still subscribed... It can also
> lead to some hard feelings because there is always more to the story than
> the amusing part.
>
> Just roll the clock forward 20 years... I can imagine the next generation
> of owners complaining about how most of us seem to think that red was the
> only original color for our beloved roadster....
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
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