[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I worked for Hearst Magazine Division in the early eighties, I was > assiged to photograph a tow truck that had won a Motor Magazine contest for > custom tow trucks. Picking this vehicle was sort of a gag on the prt of the > editors. The truck was kind of obscene. It was decorated with hundreds of > lights and geegaws, and sported a bevy of horns. Iit belonged to a guy who > lived in the mountains in West Virgina. I went out there to shoot the truck > on the last day of a thirteen day road trip that had taken me across the > country and back. I flew into West Virgina, rented a car and drove up some > eighty miles of winding mountain roads. The last twenty miles or so were dirt > roads. When I arrived at the house, the truck owner and his wife greeted me > like I was long lost kin. I spent most of the day with them. Great folks. We > drank some moonshine, they slaughtered one of the chickens that roamed thier > yard, and the Mrs. baked som biscuits. I filed up on the best fried chicken I > ever had, sho > t the truck and headed back to New York. I have to see if I can find some > pics of that truck. I probably have them packed away in a box somewhere. > Anyway, that's my West Virginia story.
Hell, I might be related to those folks. If not, my heritage surely comes down the same turnpike. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
