California Edition Saga

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

No worries, it still a fun trip!

Working on the barley-pops right now in a whale's vagina!

-Marc



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Toomasson [mailto:area53@validpath.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 4:41 PM
To: Marc's Getty.Net
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: California Edition Saga

damn - now I feel bad that I wasn't able to go down and check it out myself
and save you the detour. Sorry it was a wild goose chase.

Amazing, and sorta not surprising, that I may have contacted her about the
car so long ago.

Enjoy your wedding. I'm sure you'll have a few barley-pops!  :)

JT
 
> Unfortunately the car was a bust. I flew into San Jose on Wednesday 
> evening and got a ride from the car's owner to Boulder Creek to see 
> the car. It was completely dark by the time I got there and could not 
> tell much about the body but that is not where the car's issues were.
> 
> The California Edition was pretty heavily modified, a crank-style 
> sunroof was botched into it, the manifold + down pipe was replaced 
> with a header, an odd throttle body installed, some REAL dark tint and 
> power windows slapped on. The worst part is that EVERYTHING under the 
> hood was HORRIBLY rusted! Every single bolt looked like it spent the 
> last 23 years in NY State, not California! I stayed overnight and 
> checked out the car again in the morning to find that it has obviously 
> been re-painted and some repaired front end damage.
> 
> Being that I needed to drive the 3500 miles to San Diego and then home 
> I decided to pass on the car. The car's owner was ?ber-nice the whole 
> time and gave me a ride back to San Jose to pickup a rental car which 
> got me to San Diego (technically Rancho Bernardo) where I am now for a 
> friend's wedding.
> 
> I believe that the car's owner is keeping the car, even though three 
> years ago Jeff T. was in contact when she wanted to sell it but changed
her mind!
> ;-)
> 
> More to come....
> 
> -Marc
> 
> 
> 
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