Hi Chuck, This e-mail manages to blend the sports car with SLAS history. I've been (slowly) going through the old meeting minutes, etc. to try to pull together a history of SLAS (in late fall/winter, I hope to get groups of long-time members together and have them reminisce and fill in some of the gaps and liven things up with their stories). In doing this, I see you were the cover illustrator for the Scope Jockey's (sp?) journal. There is a guy waving his hat and riding a scope in the air (looks a bit like the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove) but, in the corner there appears to be . . . . a sports car! So, what was your inspiration? And, while I'm asking, did you do the drawing for the first SLAS logo, the earth moon? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:36 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: SPOC Funny you should mention the gullwing. When I was a teen, I often would see Tribune editor (back then) Jack Gallivan driving his silver gullwing Mercedes back and forth to work, near our house next to the U of U. See? This thread is legitimate because some sports cars have "astronomical" price tags! LOL. On 9/8/07, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
BTW, this thread could turn out to be an expensive one for me. I miss my SL and now this thread has got me putting out feelers for my second most favorite SL, a "Pagoda top" 230 (most favorite is a 300 Gullwing but considering they're going for so much these days that a friend was recently able to trade his for a large house up Emmigration Canyon, and, well, sigh, it's just not realistic).
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