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Date:         Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:51:15 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Barret Jackson Auction NVC
In-Reply-To:  <7.0.1.0.0.20070123181856.02254dd0@ipa.net>
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I got to drive a 289 back about 68. It belonged to a NASA engineer who worked for my dad who brought it over for me to see. It was a real beast, I was used to a TR4. You had to shut it off at stop lights because it didn't have a radiator fan.

Breathtaking.

Jim

On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Max Wellhouse wrote:

> If he let go of his own car, I wonder how many others he still has > laying around? There is NO car on the face of God's green earth with > anywhere near the pure sex appeal that an AC Cobra has, not even my > Vanagon(RVC). I got to see a trailered in 289 Cobra compete at an > autocross in Ankeny, Iowa back in the early 70's. I can still smell > that exhaust!! > > There was a 1966 427 Cobra on ebay some time ago. Fully refurbished, > and the bidding started at $600k and that didn't meet the > reserve. The car got no bids, but had like 4000 hits. It was in > Long Island NY somewhere. Someone told me Bill Cosby owns the last > 427 ever built, or at least he used to. > > Dammit Frank, you got me distracted again!! > > DM&FS > > At 06:43 AM 1/23/2007, Frank Condelli wrote: > >> Now I see where Carol Shelby sold his personal 800 hp Cobra for >> 5.5 mil at >> the auction. what this has to do with Vanagons is anybody's guess ! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Frank Condelli >> Almonte, Ontario, Canada >> '87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg (Forsale) & Lionel Trains >> (_Collection >> for sale_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/trainsal.htm) ) >> Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley >> _Frank Condelli & Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/ >> busindex.html) >> _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_ >> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm) >> _BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm) a VW >> Camper >> camping event, Almonte, ON, June 07 ~ 10, 2007 >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: >> 1/23/2007 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: > 1/23/2007 >


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