I think I got a copy lined up. Yah, I wanna get
a copy of the magazine itself, eventually.
Prolly find it at a swap meet or on EBay.
Funny, R&C was the very first magazine I bought
too. It was about 1953 or 54, I was on a school
field trip to Old Sturbridge Village in
Massachusetts. The school buses made a rest stop
at a small country grocery and dry goods store,
and all the boys flocked to the magazine racks,
where many of them snatched up nearly every issue
of Playboy. I looked over their shoulders at the
pictures, but being a good twelve-year-old
Catholic boy, I knew I would be doing wrong if I
too bought one of those books, not to mention
what it would do to my poor mother. So I bought
a copy of R&C, figuring that it was also a manly
thing to do, and the other guys wouldn't pick on
me. That R&C started my "need for speed" boiling
a little, but I didn't really learn about
Bonneville until I got a whole box of car
magazines from a neighbor and it included the
Pierson Brothers coupe issue. Funny thing, I been
hooked on cars and speed ever since. I sure have
learned a lot about cars since then.
Do you think that if I'd have bought that issue
of Playboy instead that I would know a lot about
women now????
Dick J
wrote:
> I'll do it for ya too if I got it. I'll have'ta
> look. but it sound to me
> that what you really need'ta do is find a copy
> of that exact mag for yerself
> -for posterity Dick.
>
> I'm "still looking" (casually) for the first
> R&C I can remember having; it
> was I think about a June or July 1958 issue
> that I bought whilst me and my
> family were "at camp" up in the Adirondacks
> that summer....
>
> theres just somthing about reminiscing like
> that, that warms one's heart
> doe'snt it ? :) :) :) :) (insert 4 smiles
> here )
>
>
>
> YeR pAl, dA dOuG DoWn sOuTh -NuYawK tHeT
> iS....
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>
>
> Would someone be willing to make a copy of that
> article and send it to me. That
> issue was one of the first I ever bought,
> having
> only read small maagazines up until then
> because
> they could hide in my
> Algebra book. That article was what absolutely
> and totally infected me with salt fever. I
> have
> had the affliction ever since. I managed to
> talk
> my dad into buying a Chrysler 300C and got to
> make a pass on the sand at Daytona, before I
> even
> had a driver's license, back when they used to
> let you pull your hubcaps and get a time slip
> for
> $5. For the past fifty years or so (ever since
> that issue) I've dreamed of driving at
> Bonneville, and with the Lord's blessing, I
> will
> finally realize that dream in September. I'll
> be
> more than glad to cover the cost of copy and
> postage.
>
> Dick J
>
>
>
>
>
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