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Date Posted: 17:21:56 05/20/01 Sun
Author: The beginning of the car line-up, a new one every week. Not to mention his long fantasy career of being a cop! Yeah, right. It's so easy being Bill, just type in a new fantasy every day.
Subject: Blast from the Past
In reply to: First indicator of impersonation 's message, "Blast's From the Past" on 15:24:02 05/20/01 Sun

From: "Bill Parks"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: BoardRoom: re: real life


>
> Time: Fri, 05-May-2000 01:47:47 GMT IP: 152.163.206.193
>
> I'm with you on this one too! I've been involved in many, I
> don't know about 100, but many pursuits, particularly with
> motorcycles, and I'm talking beefed up Honda 750s, Kawasakis,
> Yamahas, and I always got my man, with the Fords, which at the
> time in the early to mid 1970s were 400Ms with 2V, but they would
> move! The local Chevy dealer, upset that he could never win a
> Police bid, over bid a car, meaning he speced it out with much
> more than the minimum bid requirements, just so he could finally
> get one of his Chevys on the road in local police garb. It was a
> mid 1970s, perhaps a 1976 or 77 Impala, with a 454 4V, which we
> all thought should/would outperform the Fords, but it didn't. It
> was a very comfortable car, but the Fords would kick it's ass
> when we would do the night time racing on I-95. Don't ask me
> why, as I couldn't believe it! The State Police switched from
> Fords to MOPARS for 2.5 years , because they boought the MOPARS
> several hundred dollars cheaper than the Fords, per unit. They
> blew up so many 440 MOPARS at 35K to 45K miles that they finally
> switched back to the more expensive, better handling, and much
> more reliable Fords. Regards,
>
> Bill Parks
> 1971 Ford Custom 500, 429 Police Interceptor
> 1972 Ford Custom, 429 Police Interceptor
> 1978 Ford LTD, 460 Police Interceptor
>

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