Thanks Frank. Glad it brought back some good memories. I was a Pontiac fan as a teenager as well. You mightremember that in the early sixties, they dominated NASCAR for a while. And Mickey Thompson went 415 mph at Bonneville with his Pontiac-powered Challenger streamliner. I wanted a 67 GTO with the same color scheme as this Firebird. A guy I knew had one. I hated him. I did have a Pontiac powered 34 Ford and later a little dragster with a Pontiac engine. Couldn't keep head gaskets in the dragster motor on stiff doses of nitromethane because Pontiac engines had only ten head bolts. That caused me to fall out of love:-). (Although on one of the rare occassions that the head gaskets stayed where they belong, Iit went 187 mph in 8.65 seconds. Not bad for a normally aspirated car at the time.) Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Christine Aguila > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul: You know your car shots are really terrific when they greatly appeal > > to a woman (me) who has never much cared about cars. In fact, I bought by > > very 1st new car just this past May 2007 at the age of 48. I did own a > > motorcycle once. I really enjoyed riding that, but then I got domestic. > > Anyway, your car photography makes cars look fun. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6978614&size=lg > > Missed the original post of this one. > > I love it, Paul. Looks like the rear tire is mashed down a bit, maybe > even a bit wrinkled, from the acceleration! > > When I was a kid, I really really wanted a Firebird. Way more than a > Camaro (even though they were very similar cars). And I wanted a > convertible. Pretty much just like this one. > > Memories (of something I never got)! > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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