Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is the car! But hers was hardtop. She was a trooper. Got a divorce in the forties and was left with 7 children by a drunken man who just tried to make life difficult for her. She was Catholic (and you didn't DO that ... she did). She started a series of "rest homes", worked around the clock. At 2 am she'd take a break, drive quietly out of town until she got to a straitway through the cornfields for 10 miles (this is Southern Illinois), then she'd floor it and keep it floored until about a mile before the hill at the end. Her kids (who were all over 30) found out and had a fit. She didn't care. But she swore the only way to park the thing was to see when the car in front of you rocked back and forth gently ... On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > how about parking "by ear?" > > the continental convertible with suicide doors has got to be > among the coolest cars ever made. if they made one today, it > would surely replace the suburban as our family car. > > http://www.lovefords.org/archives/conv/62_linc_top.htm > http://www.lovefords.org/archives/conv/61_linc_int.htm > http://www.cars-on-line.com/64linc7236.html > > it's enough to make you like fords!! > > -rei > > > From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> > > > > Alistair, those are EXACTLY the three things my grandmother TAUGHT me to > > do. How are you supposed to know where you are in the space without doing > > that. > > > > She drove a huge Lincoln (in the sixties) ... I miss her, thank-you for > > reminding me :) > > > > Daniel > > > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html