<VV> My Escort Across Alligator Alley

[Louis Armer]

Yep you got that right.............he didn't know the way !!! <GGG>

da Chuckster
Chuck Armer
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At 12:34 AM 4/29/2010, you wrote:
>You were HIS escort!
>
>Regards,
>Joel
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:31 PM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: <VV> My Escort Across Alligator Alley
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>
>I recently returned from my semiannual R&R visit to the Florida Keys. I
>always drive down in one of my Corvairs, and this time I took my white, 67
>coupe. A good portion of the drive involves traversing Alligator Alley;
>Alligator Alley is 80 miles long, and connects east and west southern
>Florida.
>In the old days, the Alley was a treacherous, two lane road, with no service
>
>stations along its entire stretch. The alley is now part of the interstate
>system, but, even now, only one gas station has been added (and it's not
>really  a "service" station). Anyway, especially in an older vehicle, and
>alone at  that, traversing the Alley can give one a "Charles Lindbergh
>feeling,"
>  as he must have felt crossing the Atlantic in equipment not yet refined
>for the  task. Don't misunderstand, the 67 is very reliable, but left to
>itself, with no safety net around, the mind can conjure  up any number of
>odd
>noises, vibrations, and resultant calamities. Anyway,  on Sunday, April the
>18th, at approximately 9:30 A.M., I entered the east end of  the Alley, as
>did
>a late model T-Bird. This T-Bird shadowed me the entire  length of the
>Alley... if I went 60, he went 60; I'd speed up to 80, he'd go to  80, but
>always staying a respectable and courteous distance behind. Leaving the
>Alley I
>exited at Naples for fuel; he (the T-Bird), flashed his lights, tutted  his
>horn, and went on. Mr. T-Bird, if you are out there, thank you  for the
>escort!
>
>Mike Mauro
>67 Factory Air PG Coupe
>64 Greenbrier Deluxe
>64 Spyder Vert
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