[ROVERNET - UK] Re: NADA 2000TC Blue Sail Panel Cars

[Glen Wilson]

Geoff Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Glen and others,
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> The VIN number on my car is 85900032.  It's titled as a 1968 model.  I bought it from the 90-year old original owner via his son.  He bought it new somewhere in the greater San Francisco area, don't know exactly where.  He had been a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.  
Geoff,

Maybe your little metal plate is some sort of Roswell technology that 
allowed this guy to get in and out of Lawrence Livermore. Maybe you 
should take it off, crumple it up and see if it straightens itself out 
like the other Roswell fragments did...

;-)

Glen

> That was the kind of person who bought these cars when they were new, at least here in California - engineers and scientists, people who appreciated engineering excellence, wanted to drive something very different from the norm, and could afford to spend Cadillac or Lincoln money on an unusual car.
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> Rudiger, you probably don't have this car in your database yet...
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> Geoff
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> "This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
> - William Lyon Phelps
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> Geoff Kirkpatrick, 382 Riverside Avenue, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, USA
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