Serious Drool Factor
Scott at
AMCGLTD links to
this story:
From the article:
bq. It turns out that the car was owned by the same lady from new. She parked the car in 1978 with just under 29,000 miles after a surgery that left her upper body seriously weakened. Whether it was started regularly or not is unknown, but absolutely everything worked when we started it up again 26 years later.
The car in question (a 1964 Alfa Giulia 1600 spider):
The car after a few hours of loving attention:
As Scott said so aptly:
bq. I'll shake his hand if I ever meet him, but I'll be mumbling "lucky bastard" under my breath when I do.
Posted by DaveH at January 13, 2005 10:18 PM