01 Jul 09 07:25, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> It took the cops over 20 years to learn that. At one time, my
 RW>> license was in jeopardy because of too many tickets. Twenty years
 RW>> later they didn't even know I exisited, except for the driver's
 RW>> license department.

 RN> Back in the day, the cops would take your license and you'd get it
 RN> back when you paid the fine.  If stopped after that, the succeeding
 RN> officer would note the staple holes (and how many) in your license
 RN> and you couldn't talk your way out of a ticket.

I never had that happen, but I have had them get in the car and instruct
me to drive to the station.

 RW>> Saw it.

 RN> It was perfect for what(?) I wanted at the time.  (-:

 RW>> Those VW buses were as slow as molasses in January. I used to cuss
 RW>> them off the road whenever I saw one.

 RN> But that's the way I drive now.

You mean you relax now.

 RN> I've gone from an offensive driver to a defensive one.  I'm no longer
 RN> in a hurry to get where I'm going.

I'm not either, but I'm still the first one to arrive. :o)

 RN> If I'm late, I'm late, and you know what they say about that.

Better late than never.

 RW>> I didn't want to know either, but my old friend Max had me helping
 RW>> him with a V12 XKE Jag that needed both heads replaced because they
 RW>> cracked. That Jag was still sitting in his shop when I moved to
 RW>> Texas. That meant that it was there at least a year.

 RN> A most impressive looking engine.  I wonder why the Brits build an
 RN> engine that requires constant maintenance?

A better question would be: Why did they bother to build a Jag?

 RW>> RN> But they do look like 1930s gangster cars, don't they?

 RW>> These didn't look like that. They were newer and had a weird V6 in
 RW>> them made by Maserati...you would expect DeGaulle to step out of one
 RW>> if you saw it.

 RN> I think you don't want to get me started on DeGaulle.

I know, he had lots of gaul... :o)

 RW>> She only showed up 3, maybe 4 times in the whole movie...and that
 RW>> was just a brief view before she disappeared again. Dryfuss got it
 RW>> right in the end, he ignored her after his plane took off.

 RN> Not much of a choice.

He did look down and saw the car, but he didn't get as excited as he did
during the movie when she appeared in the white T-bird.

 RW>> RN> Nothing like New Orleans then.

 RW>> 28,000 people, maximum.

 RN> I used to believe that right before I left there were 1M people in
 RN> N.O., but the census keeps proving me wrong.  I believe there are 5M
 RN> where my sister lives in Dade County.

Hell, I used to visit every other year or so. The city limit signs kept on
changing with fewer and fewer residents. Finally it tapered off and got
steady at about 24k...

 RW>> You need a pickup or an SUV...

 RN> I still beat myself up for getting rid of that '84 Chevy 3/4 ton.  I
 RN> would have been better off putting a hydraulic jack in the bed and
 RN> changing the rear end to something like 273:1 from a 410:1 for better
 RN> mileage.

Just make sure you wear a ten gallon hat while driving that truck.

 RW>> I havn't seen the banana isle for about two months now.

 RN> Staying away from the mosquitoes?

Thanks to the drought, they aren't around much.

 RN> If so, try wearing dark clothing, too.

It summer time when you wear light clothes. But I'll keep that in mind.

 RW>> You're sure he wasn't you?

 RN> Positive!  The only tricky thing about the quadrajet was gauging the
 RN> float level properly and that was also true of the 2-bbls.  If we did
 RN> it wrong, he made us strip it again and put it back together.  He was
 RN> almost as strict as my mother.

I always thought the choke mechanism was the hard part. Getting that lever
at the end of the choke rod onto the vacuum operated shaft is/was a pain.

                R\%/itt

Joy lives in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in
the victory itself.

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