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Subject:Re: What does your VANITY PLATE say?
From:David Marshall
Date:Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:12:14 -0700

I think the owner of the shop knew what he was doing!  ;^)

At 05:57 PM 13/10/2000 -0400, The Bus Depot wrote:
>> "SAGWAGN"
>
>
>This reminds me of an amusing off-topic story.  My brother-in-law is into
>old Chevy muscle cars.  (He gets a kick out of my interest in vehicles that
>can barely get out of their own way, and have the drag coefficient of a
>boxcar. :-)  He has some sort of late '60's station wagon, souped up to the
>max: huge blower on the hood, the widest 50-series tires I've ever seen,
>custom paint job, you can hear it from a mile down the road when he touches
>the gas pedal, you get the idea.
>
>A couple of months ago, he decided to get "Shaggin' Wagon" written onto the
>back hatch of the car - you know, as in The Spy Who Shagged Me.  So he took
>it to a local body shop that does pinstriping and the sort on classic cars,
>dropped it off, and told the foreign-born bodyman what he wanted.
>
>When he picked up the car the next day, he was shocked to discover that his
>beautiful classic now says "Saggin' Wagon" on the back.  :-)
>
>- Ron Salmon
>  The Bus Depot�, Inc.
>  www.busdepot.com
>  (215) 234-VWVW
>
>

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