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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin!
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To: Nemer who wrote (6897)10/23/2001 10:51:09 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (2) of 7434
 
we haggled for better than two weeks on the price, maybe a couple of hours worth of eye ball to eye ball talking

I know the type, my father-in-law was a judge of antique cars up here in the Northeastern region. They may have even known each other, as they both were affiliated with the same club. I am as well, but I'm not actively involved as was my FIL and evidently DWM is. That's where I saw the article, in the AACA magazine.

Antique Automobile Club of America.

FIL pulled a '33 Packard Touring car out of the Great Swamp in Morris County in 1958. By the mid-'60s he had it so spruced up that they asked him to stop competing with it. He kept walking away with the prizes. So he became a judge at the competitions.

One time, there was a '28 Moon (as I recall) on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City that everyone was swooning over. As the judge, he walked over to evaluate the car. The lady who had it restored was visibly shaken as he said,

"Lady, you put a lot of work into this car. A lot of time, a lot of money. But you ruined it by painting it the wrong color."

Then he walked across the floor, took a book off the table and turned the pages and said "See? Off two shades of blue."

Yeesh, these guys are tough. It's almost impossible to match old paint. No lead in paint anymore.
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