So much for the break-in!! :-)
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Thomas and Carrie Powell
1994 NOS injected
Tourmaster V-Max
"LAFGAS"
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http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=957019
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----- Original Message -----
From: James Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Vmax] on a more pleasant note
> I too am a Cobra fan. With out doubt the most awesome car on the road. I
> too will have one. (though I imagine I will settle for a kit cobra).
> I fell in love with the Max the first year it came out. I was just a kid
> racing a YZ80 at the local track, and thought "when I get big enough for a
> street bike....." So anyway, years go by. I have a wife in college and two
> small children. My only big luxury is a Yamaha powered SHO 5spd. (and oh
did
> I love that car). New Years eve. and some idiot slams into the back of me
> and totals my beloved SHO.
> I decided to replace it with another motorcycle. My wife has a new car, I
> have a work truck, so why not another motorcycle? I won't the V Max still,
> but don't want to spend so much money. So I shop around for a few months.
> In the meantime I read an article on the V-Max. It is called "The 427
Cobra
> of motorcycles" oh I've got to have one now! Self control still gets the
> better of me. Finally spring arrives, and a friend at work buys a new 1100
> vstar. Beautiful bike, great price like 8K. So I decide this is it. My
wife
> and I go to look them over real good. I say I'll decide now (it's April)
and
> buy when I get back form vacation(july). We look and I spot a VMax.
Knowing
> how I love them my wife gives me permission to go sit and drool for a
while.
> Only this is not a carbon max. It's black..... it's a 98.... Some old man
> bought the bike, and couldn't ride it. Salesman said he traded it in on a
> vstar. 1700 miles, for less than the Vstar I came to look at. Oh I could
not
> believe myself. I felt like a kid in a toy store. So anyway I bought the
> bike on spot. April of this year, one day before my birthday no less!
> Power? I took the bike out and a good flat straight near my house. Rolled
> of slowly pass 6K. I figure the V-boost is open, so it shouldn't do
anything
> "funny". Roll throttle, stand up...........no time to look at tach, sounds
> write...release throttle ,slip clutch...change to second...roll
> throttle....again wheel stand!
> WOW!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 12:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Vmax] on a more pleasant note
>
>
> Well, for me, I have always been a huge fan of the 427 Shelby Cobra.
I
> mean you talk about attitude. The car looks like it is getting ready to
eat
> you in the parking lot. That tremendous mouth and two bug eyes. You turn
> the key.... And pure music. @ 420 horses singing through two side pipes.
> Who needs a stereo when you have that kind of sound!!! The car is
> testosterone on four wheels. I vowed to my self that one day I would own
> one.
>
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