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and spoke with the guy this morning driving a 1957 250 GT Cabriolet. Sweet Car. Not something you see everyday.


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And here I thought spotting an OEW MGA was a treat.

Wow.
 
yea...considering there were only about 36 of them ever built.

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sheesh... my last good treat was an MGA going down the 210 freeway at about 75.

erm... well... actually, the last MGA I saw as Steve_S's cruising through an intersection, near where I live.
 
That was a year or two ago. You haven't seen an MGA since? That's surprising! You should see a few on Monday if you make it out.
 
last year /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Now that I think I've figured out my issue. I think I should be able to make it out there.

I'm gonna bring a friend along. If he's lucky, he'll be driving his Porsche 914 that he recently purchased.
 
In the early 70s, I participated in the destruction of a pair of Ferrari 250 GTs (not Cabriolets).

I worked part-time at a foreign car repair shop in Lakewood NJ and the owner wanted to build a front-engine "special". He picked up two wrecked Ferrari 250s and we torched the oval frame up in one and shortened it. Pulled all the drivetrain and suspension from the other and scrapped the body.
The resultant "special" looked like a Porsche 917. We ran in some SCCA regionals at Lime Rock and it had lots of teething problems.
One day, my college roommate, who also worked at the place, took it out onto Route 9 (in Lakewood) with "dealer license plates" to test it out. It got away from him and he destroyed it by running into a telephone pole. There was a big article in the local newspaper about it.
That ended his car racing career...he raises horses now!
 
I was on a supply run the other night to Lowes and I soptted a Nobel pulling out of a local Hotel. I about broke my neck. My wife was just going "what? what?"
 
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