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Re: [VAL] The Silver Albaltross



Your comments are so true. If it were closer to me in Florida I would 
tape and edit at no cost.

Bob
SW Florida USA
1960 Tradewind

>      This is Mrs. Dan-- I enjoyed the pictures and congratulate you 
>on what was obviously a labor of love to impress your lady love.  I 
>hope that you have someone that can videotape you telling the story 
>when you are able.
>      My great grandmother's story from Hocking County, OH. to Douglas 
>County, IL. is on tape at a Junior college and the transcript is dear 
>to me.  I would never have known how they met and that he only bought 
>a car in @1912  after he met her, because SHE liked to drive.  He 
>would sit on a fender with a light so she could drive through the 
>field to her parents' house because she did not yet have a driver's 
>license--a fine southern gentleman from Berea, KY.  Ironically our 
>Caravel came from KY. and a couple named McGuire had owned it.  I am 
>now looking for McGuire relatives which was his mother's side.
>      In any case, we took pictures of the retired Air Force couple 
>that we adopted the "Silver Eagle" from and because the original 
>McGuire owners were a pastor and his wife, I think of the Old 
>Testament verse that says in Isaiah 40 verse 31 "But they that wait 
>upon the Lord shall renew [7] their strength; they shall mount up 
>with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they 
>shall walk, and not faint.  (I don't find it easy to wait) 
>     Every vintage airstream needs a little family background to pass 
>on with pictures, a motto-- and a wiring diagram to make sure that 
>you always have a light!