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To: rlmorel
I had a '66 MGB...they were way better looking with the chrome bumpers before they started hanging the ugly black plastic. My had all the options...heater, lap belts, ashtray and AM radio!

It was my first convertible and I bought it when I was stationed at Ft. Riley. I remember driving out in through the prairie on the night I bought it, with the top down and just marveled at the stars from horizon to horizon.

Not so grand during Kansas hail storms...

30 posted on 03/06/2024 2:56:49 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack
I agree about the bumpers, but...it was my first car. Like a first love, I overlook those things.

When I purchased my car, I was so taken with owning my own car that I didn't get three miles on the highway, and the engine died.

Dead out of gas...and that in the gas shortage of 1978!

I was such a fool. But how I enjoyed driving it around, top down.

Here is my best friend I went into the Navy with, both of us became jet mechanics. I went to an attack squadron on the East Coast, he went to Miramar on the West Coast.

In the picture above, we went on a road trip up to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia after we got out of the Navy...:)

What a grand time that was...a grand time.

39 posted on 03/06/2024 6:15:42 PM PST by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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