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California Edition Saga



Sorry to hear it, that's pretty awkward too I imagine, but sound like the
best thing was to leave it. I'm still on my tour of the US, I'd be at about
2000 miles in the last week, 1500 of that in Klaus, who is tucked away
safely in Daun's garage as I sit and type this at Jim J's. Not sure I'll be
able to settle back down once I get home! Safe journey then!
Cathy

 On 4:06 pm 07/21/06 "Marc Getty" <marc@getty.net> wrote:
>
> 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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