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Paul McGuffin

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The story behind this cartoon goes;back in the late 1980’s I was working as a locomotive engineer from Bakersfield, California over the Tehachapi Mountains down to the San Bernardion area, West Colton. There was this fellow, another engineer in Bakersfield name of Jack Niehaus. Jack was really a good artist. Anytime there was some type of mishap on the railroad, a fewdays later there would be one of his cartoons posted on the yardoffice bulletin board, depicting the incident. In Jack’s younger years in Fresno, he and his dad put a Datsun B-210 engine and trans in a Mark II Sprite. I guess the car ran like a Spotted Ape. He was always getting pulled over by the police. They would let him off with a warning. See, Jack's father was a California Highway Patrolman.Finally his dad took the car away. Anytime we crossed paths at work, we would always talk Sprites. I once told Jack, I would love to have a righthand drive Bugeye. I would take the long way home after work, through all the Tehachapi backroads. A few days later I found a large envelope from Jack with this cartoon. That’s my guitar in the left seat. Funny ...the little things you cherish when you’re old , especially now that I bought another Bugeye
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Great story, great picture.

I'll have to keep a digital copy of that pic around, as I have both a RHD Bugeye and a guitar. :thumbsup:
 
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