[Spridgets] another "found in fenderwell" story

[oldsaabguy]

ok, so if I get this right you killed Ms. Brown and you get no aquit'  
as they fit??

Very neat story.. still have the other glove??  ;-))

Lester


On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Glen Byrns wrote:

> Some of you know that my bugeye was owned by a neighbor when I was  
> a teenager.
> After teaching me about cars as he fixed it up, we parted ways not  
> to meet
> again for 30 years.  I looked him up back in 1999 and bought the  
> Sprite from
> him that I had watched rebuilt all those years ago.
>
> That first day with the Sprite tucked safely in MY garage, I began  
> a close
> examination and clean out of the interior prior to the first total  
> strip of
> the car.  Headfirst, on my belly, I reached my hand into the rear  
> fender wells
> and started extracting all kinds of crap.  Kids toys from the PO's  
> child
> rearing years, an old feeler gauge, a few nuts and bolts, old gas  
> receipts,
> and a very nasty looking black leather glove.
>
> Time for the "Wayne's World" flashback sound effect......wave  
> fingers through
> the air........
>
> 1970, Riverside Raceway.  My neighbor/friend/bugeye owner and I  
> stand in the
> infield watching the Riverside 500.  The drive to Riverside from  
> Gardena with
> the top down in his newly restored bugeye was cold and I wore my  
> leather
> gloves.  Thrown in the back when we arrived, I didn't need them on  
> the way
> home.  Later, while searching, I could only find one of them and  
> gave up the
> search.  My neighbor said not to worry, if he found it he'd give it  
> back
> because it would be way too big for his smaller hands.
>
> Flash forward sound effect (with finger waving gestures)
>
> Now thirty years later as I recall this dim teenage memory, I pry  
> the fingers
> apart and slowly push my hand into the glove like OJ.  Nasty,  
> ragged, stiff
> and stained, it fit perfectly.  No, Rod Serling was not standing in my
> driveway with his hands clasped in front of him.
>
> Glen Byrns
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