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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Clear Lake, Iowa, February 1957...Buddy Holly plane crash. Aboard "american pie" (plane name) was the pilot, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, aka "the big bopper". Waylon wanted to fly, avoiding a long bus ride. Big Bopper had a cold, begged to take his seat. Waylon tossed a coin with Richardson for the seat...and lost. Therefore winning...on that "day the music died". (edit) Whoops...others beat me to it...
(edit) My goof...2 years off on the crash date. It was 1959. I was going from a fading memory...
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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