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On the other side of the coin, last night I saw a '60 Olds for sale at a detail shop in downtown Salem, Or. Not that I'd ever buy one, but my immediate family had 2 of those so I thought I'd stop and remind myself what they were like.
So along comes this scruffy, middle aged guy with a shell shocked look on his face, toting a bag of what I presumed was all his worldly goods. He stops and for the longest while stares at my '63 Belvedere. As I've gone over the Old-smo-bilee several times waiting for him to leave the scene, I'm like, 'great, this guy's gonna hold out for a hand out', I turn to get back in my Plymouth and he asks if its my car and tells me that back in the day 'those were called Mopars!' We talked about my car long enough for him to get some expression back in his face and he watched my car as I left. I'm wondering if it is the design blandness of the last 30 years that causes social dispair. Good enough of a reason for me.


Eric
Portland, Oregon

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert neal zimmerman" <northwestweirdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

i am doing  a gigantic job for this lawyer  around town,  he and his
wife are both  attorneys. I used to know his daughter. hes a nice guy.I
think they are pretty wealthy  , their house is an extremely nice   100
year old mini-mansion  and when i am done with it it will be a real
showpiece.
  Anyway , so i'm eating lunch with him the other day and some how  the
  topic of cars comes up- and he starts telling me about how every
  summer a buddy of his here in town lives right on the  route of a
  local cruise and he likes to go over there and sit in his lawn and
  watch the cars go by. He says  - "Yeah, ya know theres the normal old
  every day cars u recognize  like camaros and corvettes ( boredom in
  his tone) but then theres these crazy  Chrysler products from the mid
   sixties that every  body forgets about , I forgot how  big those
  cars are."

Ya see the funny thing is he doesnt know i am a motorhead, and heres
this  wealthy Ivy league lawyer confessing to me about his closet Mopar
fetish, and he doesnt even know I own several.
 I think some morning i am going to drive  my 67 coronet when i go to
 work there and just not say anything!!!
  I feel like saying "  Bill,  u spend too much time thinking about
  your damn law practice, u need to unwind, why dont u buy yourself a
  hobby, u definitely got the  dough , u could build a righteous
  cruiser.
  Hope u enjoyed that story,I just thought it was kind of funny,me Mr.
  grease monkey, blue collar construction guy talkin Mopars with a
  respected member of society about town.I just thought it was kind of
  funny.
     I  think I will take him to the woodburn All-Mopar drags this
     summer.
 neal Zimmerman, Eugene oregon


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