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runt

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« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2007, 21:41:36 »
Definitely Nik, that engine must be spectacular, amusingly a friend of mine admonished me for referring to a 289 as a '289 Windsor' years ago, me grouping them as a  Small Block family; "The 289 was built at Cleveland..!"
   
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« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2007, 05:33:32 »
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Hi Chuck, that's cool, and knowing it brings pleasure will be payment enough! That car is of course a legend, and a faithful ambassador for AC in the early sixties, really fired my imagination as a youngster, good to know it is in the rudest of good health!
   
   Paul.[:)]
   

   
   Thanks again Paul.  I hope to have some more material to scan soon.
   
   --  Chuck
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« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2007, 21:40:00 »
LETS HOPE WE SEE 39 PH ON THE RACE TRACK AGAIN SOME DAY
   
   
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« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2007, 13:27:38 »
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Hi Chuck. 39PH was the AC Cars entry at Le Mans in 1963, where it finished 7th, then went on to be one of the most famous racing Cobras outside of America. This is the Magazine:
   

   
   Ah! Very cool, I'll be on the outlook!  Thanks for the heads-up gents!
   
   --  Chuck
   
   My copy seems to have a differnet cover
   
   
   
   
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runt

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« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2007, 21:36:16 »
Hi Aaron, don't know where you found that, haven't seen one like it anywhere; and I am a resident lurker @ W.H.Smiths motor mag shelves all over London..[:I]
   
   Paul/runt.[:)]
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« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2007, 10:00:39 »
That`s the subscribers` limited edition, my copy of which(...nor Trevor`s for that matter!) never arrived!!!!
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« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2007, 19:24:00 »
I bought it on ebay for 60 pence
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« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2007, 08:40:24 »
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I bought it on ebay for 60 pence
   

   AAAAAAaaaaaarrrgghhhhh![B)]
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« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2007, 20:20:03 »
Paul /Runt , I hope its only the motoring magazines you are gazing at in WH Smiths........[:(]
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« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2007, 20:23:25 »
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I bought it on ebay for 60 pence
   

   AAAAAAaaaaaarrrgghhhhh![B)]
   
   

   
   AAAAAAaaaaaarrrgghhhhh! ,I know if you had seen it you would have bid on it yourself,
   
   If that was me, I would get in touch with Octane,tell them you will cancel your subscription if they dont send you the copy with "39 ph" on the front cover....[:D]
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« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2007, 20:06:26 »
Aaron; just noticed your post; I have to stay with the motoring section; as the trouble and strife sometimes comes and finds me..[;)]
   
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« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2007, 10:09:49 »
They only have the 'good stuff' at airport WHS` now anyway!!!
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