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So the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around. Leaning back on his moped, the old man says, "That's a pretty nice car, alright!"

Just then the light changes, so the guy decides to show the old man what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds the speedometer reads 160.

Suddenly, the guy notices a dot in his rear view mirror. It seems to be getting closer! Suddenly, Whhhoooooooooossssshhhhhh!

Something whips by him, going 2, maybe 3 times as fast!

The guy wonders, "What on earth could be going faster than my Turbo Roadster?"

Then, ahead of him, he sees a dot coming toward him. Whooooooooooosh! Goes by again! And it almost looked like the old man on the moped!

Couldn't be," thinks the young guy. How could a moped outrun a Jaguar Roadster?

Again, he sees a dot in his rearview mirror! WhoooooooshhhhhhhhKa-BbbbblaMMMMM!

It plows into the back of his car, demolishing the rear end. The guy jumps out and sees it is the old man! Of course, the moped and the old man are hurting for certain.

The guy runs up to the dying old man and asks "You're hurt bad! Is there anything I can do for you?"

The old man replies "Yeah. Unhook my suspenders from your side-view mirror!"

FWAHC ALL BRITISH

Implausible as it may sound, 70 British vehicles met at one place and not one of them refused to run. There were no calls to the EPA concerning the large oil spillage on ³O² Street and except for a few sprinkles which fell from a renegade cloud as the sun shined, the weather was once again quite pleasant. Most importantly, NOT ONE CAR ARRIVED ON A TRAILER! There would have been one, but Charlie Schmidt s Royalle Formula Racer had an encounter with the hay bales in Colorado and awaits repair.

The vehicles in attendance ranged from the elegant - such as Dr. Bob Stock s wonderful Jaguar Mk IX Saloon and and Randy Stejskal s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II - to David