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Andrea-

I was very lucky when I found my car residing in California, all it's life and well care for. It's always been a street car while still clocking weekend track use over the years. All the mechcanicals function very well. I usually get a big laugh on the pre-grid with the wippers on in the pouring rain. My favorite remark from a driver in an open car was something like, "don't rub in in." LOL

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DerekJ,

10 years ago I made a trip from Georgia to California in a wire wheel Healey, about 6000 miles in all. Three flat tires may seem unlikely, but that is what happened. Actually spent 2 days in the middle of nowhere Nevada waiting for a tube and tire after a nasty blow out that damaged rim as well as destroying tube and tire.. If I am making a big trip, I always carry a mounted spare, a tube and another tire.
Never again want to be stranded in Nevada.
 
Andrea-

I was very lucky when I found my car residing in California, all it's life and well care for. It's always been a street car while still clocking weekend track use over the years. All the mechcanicals function very well. I usually get a big laugh on the pre-grid with the wippers on in the pouring rain. My favorite remark from a driver in an open car was something like, "don't rub in in." LOL

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Hey Dougie,
I have to give you a lot of credit...racing in the rain making all those moves on the competition, all while using those stock wing Mirrors! Ur a better man then I am..:encouragement:
 
this is a picture sent to me by realm. nice looking wheels but rather expensive...245 pounds? each plus 165 pounds shipping to south carolina. they are rather fetching!!!
 

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HealeyRick said:
Rain? Looks like Dougie is now racing in the snow! And as far as those little wing mirrors go, Dougie obviously follows the first rule of Italian racing:

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I LOVED that movie! Saw at the theatre in San Francisco when it first came out (back when Daytona spyders were still under $30k!!!).

I can't imagine all the traffic laws I broke on the way home in my clapped out '66 MGB, but I do remember the roller-coaster ride down some of the hills! Going up them, well that wasn't quite so dramatic ;)
 
Randy Forbes said:
I LOVED that movie! Saw at the theatre in San Francisco when it first came out (back when Daytona spyders were still under $30k!!!).

I can't imagine all the traffic laws I broke on the way home in my clapped out '66 MGB, but I do remember the roller-coaster ride down some of the hills! Going up them, well that wasn't quite so dramatic ;)
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Talk about movie-induced scary rides. I rode home with a buddy in his Dodge R/T with a 375 hp 440 ci motor after seeing "Bullitt" in the theater. At least we don't have a lot of San Francisco like hills in Eastern Massachusetts and we didn't perish in a ball of flames, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
 
HealeyRick said:
Talk about movie-induced scary rides. I rode home with a buddy in his Dodge R/T with a 375 hp 440 ci motor after seeing "Bullitt" in the theater. At least we don't have a lot of San Francisco like hills in Eastern Massachusetts and we didn't perish in a ball of flames, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
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I went to see Bullitt with my (ten years older) brother and his bride__he had a '68 Coronet R/T ('68 Charger R/T used in the chase sequence). Same 440/375 bhp Magnum engine :smile:

I was still living at home with our parents at that time, so getting me back home in one (1) piece was non-negotiable!

Before that, he and his then girlfriend took me to see Grand Prix at the downtown Detroit Cinema Theatre (70mm, wide-screen, surround sound__felt like you were IN the cars) this time, in a '65 Dodge Custom 880 (383/4bbl/automatic). He has a thing for Dodges...

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