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David Riker wrote:
> The most interesting Midget purchase I ever made was a 75 Midget with a
> trunk full of , and I mean stuffed full of... PORN. You could barely close
> it.
> David Riker
> 74 Midget
> 63 Falcon
> 70 Torino
> http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Stanton" <cstanton@pixley.com>
> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 12:19 PM
> Subject: Halloween car stories - No Gun Content
>
> > What happened? I come back from a weekend breaking down a Saab 96 and
> find people shooting at each other????
> >
> > My 2nd BGT I bought shortly after Halloween. A friend approached me at
> work and asked if I wanted another one of "those cars" (I was driving a 74.5
> rubber bumpered BGT). A "weird" guy had broken down in front of his house
> and he had started a conversation with him. In between the guy's curses, my
> friend asked him what he wanted for the car. The guy said "give me what it
> will cost me to tow it...$35-". I of course said yes and bought the car for
> $35 through my friend. I never met the owner. I happily went to the
> registry and paid my $1.75 in State Tax.
> >
> > When I drove up and saw the car, it was a '70 BGT (Mustard Yellow
> resprayed Silver) almost no rust, 65K miles. It turned out the clutch arm
> bushing had worn and had fallen against the clutch shaft. I wired it up
> with stainless wire and drove it home.
> >
> > On cleaning the car out, I find:
> > - The carpeting has been redone in "corn chowder" style puke yellow, 2"
> shag carpeting, under and in the shag I find:
> > - A hairpeice (brown)
> > - Half a set of dentures (top)
> > - Several ladies stockings (none matching)
> > - Several very old condoms (unused thankfully)
> > - A doll's head (Barbie, I think)
> > - 2 doileys (the lace thingys, not paper)
> > - A Socian Security Card (not the former owner)
> > - A racoon tail (like from a Daniel Boone hat)
> > - Another set of keys
> > - $25 in assorted change
> >
> > Net cost $10 and the entertainment value more than made up for it.
> >
> > I drove it until, I did a clutch job on the car in February without a
> lift, in an unheated barn with a wind chill (under the door) of -20 degrees
> F. I went through at least 6 light bulbs in the drop light because of the
> cold.
> >
> > I drove the car for 2 more years, without investing much of anything.
> >
> > Every time I think of that car I remember two things:
> > - The strange circumstances that I bought it under and wondering what
> bizarre things that car had seen.
> > - Calling my girlfriend (now my wife) on Valentines eve, greasy and numb
> from doing that clutch job.
> >
> > Apologies if this previous owner is on the list....I don't want to know.
> >
> > Chris Stanton
> > That car lives on in my '78 Midget (the SU carbs).
> >
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