12-15-2008, 01:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Jasper, GA,
GA
Cobra Make, Engine: Owned CSX 3121 1969-1975. Went to the dark side and bought a 'Vette. May yet repent and be saved.
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More small world stuff. Before the Cobra, I had a Sunbeam Tiger with a transplanted Hi Po 289 that I drag raced in 1967 and 68. I used to pit with the Rye Ford guys when they were running their SS Mustang at National Speedway on Long Island: http://www.dragtimes.com/video-viewer.php?v=2c_bTXtodQU I ran A/Sp, a class for which my modded car should have been illegal, but the drag racing crowd didn't pay a lot of attention to "them litle furrin cars", so I won a bunch of trophies beating XKEs, stock Tigers, etc.
We moved from the New York area in 1977, and lost direct contact with Carter, although a close, mutual friend kept us updated on his adventures. Although my wife and I were among the (very few) guests at the party the Dysons threw at Mandalay Farm in honor of his (very brief) marriage, he always struck me as a tremendously conflicted human being, a guy who had it all, but seemed to be unhappy in his skin. |
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