You obviously have a thing for sweet iron. The Shelby GT had to be a sweet ride.
Jack --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 2:21 PM > Thanks Jack > I don't know about well known, but back then there were > very few I ever saw > on the streets. > I sold it upon graduation and bought a 1966 Shelby GT 350. > The Shelby could > go faster in second gear than the Sprite in fourth ! > > Many time I've wished I kept the Sprite. If I recall > correctly I bought it > for $700 and sold it for $550. > > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Davis" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye > > > > Good looking machine, Ken. I'll bet that car was > well known in New Jersey. > > Wouldn't it be "neat" (in the '66 > vernacular) to have now? > > > > Jack > > > > > > --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Ken Waller > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> > >> Subject: PESO - Bugeye > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > <[email protected]> > >> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 11:52 AM > >> Check out > >> > http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html > >> > >> These two images are not posted for any of their > >> photographic content but for the memories. > >> I came across these two slides taken over 42 years > ago - > >> probably on a Voightlander folder or a Zeiss Ikon > Contessa. > >> I was surprised by the original slide format - > 27mm square. > >> Film was Kodak Kodachrome. The years or the film > have given > >> these image an almost monochrome appearance. > Scanned on my > >> Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED. > >> > >> The images are of a 59 Austin Healy Sprite > (Bugeye) that > >> was my first real car. Got me thru college with > only regular > >> oil/filter changes, a tune up or two and a set of > Michelin > >> radial tires. > > > > > >> > >> The most fun for the buck in a car that I've > ever had. > >> > >> Comments welcomed > >> > >> Kenneth Waller > >> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
