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Old August 28th 07, 02:59 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default DESOTO AUTO DEMISE

Yep, I like those DeSoto waterfall grills too, I always have.Nowadays,
all of the cars look exactly just like each other cars, they SUCK! When
I was in the Army at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois in 1963, I bought a
1950 Dodge four door car, six cylinder with fluid drive transmission,
for $75.00 (that's what I said, for $75.00,,, seventy five dollars) at a
used car dealership in Saint Louis.The car dealer guy said somebody else
wants to buy the car for $95.00.I told him, Well, let him buy the car
then, seventy five dollars is all I have.I bought the car and I started
driving West on I-44 to Pacific,Missouri (about eight miles South of
Pacific was our SL 60, Charley Battery, Nike Nuclear Missiles site) and
to SL 60.

Going up those long grades on I-44, the car engine started wheezing and
steaming.I pulled over and I looked.Someone had ran that car over
something that had knocked a hole in the bottom of the radiator (right
in the middle) and plugged the hole with a piece of wood.I got ahold of
some water and I made it back to SL 60.I took the radiator off and a guy
gave me a ride to Saint Louis to get the radiator repaired.I can still
hear those old narrow high center of gravity tires right now squealing
around and up and down those hills and curves between Pacific and SL 60.

By the way, looka here.I got an email today from that married Irish
woman (married to that Irish guy) in Bognor Regis,England.She has a new
company car to drive.Fiat Grande Punto 1400.(the 1400 stands for 1.4
liter engine) She said it has an automatic transmission and a lot of
other nice features.Her previous company car was a 2007 Vauxhall Astra
Estate car with a manual shift transmission, she hated that Vauxhall
car.She loves her new Fiat car. www.devilfinder.com Fiat Grande
Punto 1400
cuhulin