"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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On 2/20/2012 4:28 AM, Robert Green wrote:
"The Daring 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.



I'm supposed to get my van back today but my favorite cars were the 64
Valiant, the 65 Dart, the 67 & 73 Renault 10's and the 71 Renault 16.
The little 67 R10 weighed 1730lbs and I could pull the 1108cc engine
by hand and carry it to the work bench to repair it. It's been a while
since I owned a car, I've been driving vans to run service calls when
I feel well enough to work. I work on my vehicles when I can but hurt so
bad it takes a while to recover and I start all over again. o_O

I know the feeling and it's a bad one. )-: The old gray mare, she ain't wh
at she used to be. Me neither.

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Bobby G.