RE: Volvo 142s
HeY Topi,
I was coming down that damn straight and it was once know as "I-405" since you could drive three log trucks down it abreast, I since nobody could think to use the banking provided by the nice crown the only placed slightly swept was right in the middle of the huge road. My car does a genuine 105mph and were were flat out for a way long time, and at some point I start cussing in English,Swedish and even a perkele satanas satan!, co driver was Dave Clark's housemate Jamie Bradshaw and he asks me "WHAAAAT????!!!!" Satans helvetes fan this stinking straight never ends! I'm backing off! "why??" Because i'm a big weenie and I don't want to (at this point I see half mile ahead out in the clear cut the POS 142 of Thompson)END UP PARKED OUT THERE!!!
I reckon he fell asleep since the 142 would never turn no matter how much he sawed right and left at the wheel.
Maybe even with over half mile visibility the 13 1/2 turns lock to lock steering didn't respond in time. Or the commands from the bridge hadn't made it to the crew at the steering oar (Ahoj bryggan till besättningen! Hård åt styrbord! Tweeeeeeet!)
Thompson was funny guy, one time I run into him at Bow-wow where he was delivering som Colways and I had a bunch of the Swedish paper Idrottsbladet (oxo känt som Idiotblasket)in the car I was taking to recycle, and he was in A 240!!! I said jessus you got a 240? Are you going to build this next?
No, nobody rallies 240s back in Sweden, he says.
Well I pull out 6-7 issues of Idiotblasket and open them randomly and start reading him results (this was maybe 90 or so) and it was still lots of Ascona B but still it was like: Ascona B. 240, 240, 240, Ascona B, 240 240 240, 240, Ascona B on and on in all the National A or B class then maybe in C class you would see a 140, event after event after event.
I asked him "wanna see?"
"Er.....uh.....I can't read Swedish!!!!, I don't have the time...!"
I say "Here, you can have 10 copies, the names of the cars are the same, and "national A" is the same so you can read these when you sit on the throne."
"Errrr....uhm....no thanks, gotta run....."
Didn't want his fixation with 140s disturbed by reality appearantly.
Sounds like he hasn't seen the light yet.
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Tjock i skallen nog var han! Tee he
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
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