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Originally Posted by herr_oberst View Post
How often do you whip out the track sheet on your way to the pool hall? Do you show it to the grocery clerk or the gas station attendant? Do you leave it under the quarters you stack on the pool table when you're waiting for next? Maybe you just set it on the dash when you leave the car in a parking lot, or do you roll it into a tube shape and keep it in the case with your Nick Crenshaw custom pool cue?
LOL! As a matter of fact, I did whip it out once..a table mechanic named Dan and I BSing cars one day, he fondly remembering a bother's '67 427 'Vette. So, I looked up it's stats from an old Road & Track test, made print outs of the data sheet above and that test. Amazingly, 1/4 mile times, 0-60, 0-100 identical. Dan laughed his ass off, took the sheets to show to his brother. I posted this here some years back..do a search if you don't believe me.

But no, I don't keep it in my Jack Justis case with my Keith Josey custom pool cue. The Josey is among the 3 butts and 5 shafts my case contains.

Grocery clerk? Cindy does the grocery shopping. Gas station? Mostly spend that time explaining that there was an old movie made as the reason for the "Bullitt" on the faux gas cap. Most of today's youthful pump jockeys never heard of Steve McQueen or any of his movies.

Now..on to the price of tea in China?
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