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Old 05-19-2009, 10:23 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Add the next step will be to outlaw any car over 5 years old.
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Old 05-19-2009, 10:25 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Add the next step will be to outlaw any car over 5 years old.
If I ran a car company and had the power to generate interest in my product by simply creating demand, that's what I'd do.
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Old 05-19-2009, 10:41 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Wonder if those Greenbriar folks wanna rent out some garage space. Or maybe find one of those old silos.

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My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law
And on sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.

Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine ---
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...

Wind in my hair ---
Shifting and drifting ---
Mechanical music ---
Adrenalin surge ---

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, Ive got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside...
Always loved this song, never imagined my kids might live it.
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