Paul,
My wife gave me that same book! She got really ticked when she caught me
reading an issue of Classic and Sportscar hidden 'tween the book's cover. I
think she finally just gave the book to the guy that cleans our pool.
Michael, New Bern, NC
At 08:13 PM 11/26/96 GMT, you wrote:
>>A long, long time ago, in a place far away, David E. Davis, (an
>>automotive scribe, of sorts) coined a phrase, "joy secs," to
>>describe those brief moments in a car enthusiast's otherwise mundane
>>life, when something happens that is The Way Things Should Be. You
>>know -- the time you stayed in third instead of shifting down to
>>second and hit the apex of That Corner in your daily commute just
>>right, only 7 mph faster than ever before, and it all felt soooo
>>smooth, no pucker factor at all, just absolute perfection! However
>>briefly, life was really, really good. That's a Joy Sec. That's why
>>I have my LBC.
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>That's funny, my wife bought me a book called "The Joy of Secs", I
>think, about 20 years ago. Nothing in it about MGs, though.
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