"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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I had a beautiful Chrysler Cordoba and one morning I walked out the
front door and my car was 20 feet down the street from where I parked it
with the front end caved in.

With the rich Corinthian leather? It must have looked "marvelous!" until it
was murdered. That's awful.

"Boss, the plane!" Seriously, though, there aren't very many cars like the
Cordoba that are indelibly associated with a single Hollywood actor like the
Cordoba and Ricardo Montalban. I didn't figure you as the Cordoba type. El
Camino, pickup or van, maybe. (-:

There's nothing like discovering your car's been destroyed but it's even
worse to find it up on blocks and gutted, too. I remember seeing a film
about how long an abandoned car lasts in NYC. They begin at twilight and by
midnight there's a shell left up on cinderblocks. No seats, no engine, no
steering wheel, no wheels, no trunk lid, no hood, no doors - even the
carpeting goes. I think it was the same guy who did the famous "college
prison" experiment, Dr. Phil Zimbardo, a paisano!

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Bobby G.