Re: A day well spent ...

[Gary Futrell <gary.futrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a great trip !

    Gary F.



On Dec 29, 2007 9:37 AM, Jim Altemose <jaltemoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I had a great day yesterday.  I bought a 63 Polara 500 (383) a
> couple of weeks ago and I went to pick it up.  I live on Long Island,
> NY and the car was up in Albany, which is straight up the Hudson river
> about 200 miles away.  It was a nice sunny 40 degrees.  I took an
> Amtrak train up which runs right along the river bank for 140 miles.
> Beautiful scenery; a very pleasant train ride.  The car owner met me
> at the train station.  I was a little nervous driving it so far and
> had some tools and stuff with me.  But it drove like a dream.  No
> trouble whatsoever.  I stopped halfway home in New Paltz NY to have
> lunch and a couple of beers at a pub that I'd spent a lot of time in
> 20 years ago visiting friends every weekend who went to college there.
>  The place hasn't changed a bit.  Continued home without a hitch,
> getting thumbs up and smiles all the way.
>
> - Jim
> Jim Altemose, Long Island, NY
> '63 Polara 500 (Max Wedge)
> '63 Polara 500 (383)
> '65 Belvedere I (Street Wedge)
> '71 Bronco
>