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Originally Posted by gmeteer
I still choke up when I recall this one: In 1964, one of my best friends in high school bought a white on red 1959 Jag XK150 drophead coupe for $1,000(!). The car was in great shape as I recall, and we immediately took it out on a 140 mph run down the Parkway toward Lewiston(top down of course). Freddie kept it a few years and unloaded it for a loss.
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Double gulp...the $1,000 price tag is beyond belief, as is maxing it out on the highway straight out of the box.
That's another group of stories that I am simply glad to write about. It is hard to believe how naive I was to those things in high school.