50 Shades of Rust by Tom Cotter

Author:Tom Cotter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 47

Unforgettable

John Simmons had never seen one before, had never even heard of an Arnolt Bristol. But when he spotted one on the Virginia Military Institute campus where he was a senior, the car’s design made the engineering student weak in the knees.

Soon thereafter, the car was posted on a bulletin board for sale by another VMI student who needed the money for graduate school. Simmons’s time had come.

Simmons was already a British car enthusiast; he counted a Triumph TR4 as his daily driver. But this Arnolt Bristol was something he had to own. The fact that it had a modified Chevy 283 engine and GM three-speed gearbox didn’t faze him. So he borrowed the $1,100 asking price from his father and made plans to pick it up during the 1968 Thanksgiving holiday.

“So my brother and me loaded up the TR4 and started on the 200-mile drive from Lexington, Virginia to White Stone,” says Simmons, 66, from Charlotte, North Carolina. “But the Triumph jumped a timing chain and stopped running. Fortunately my aunt lived near where we broke down, so we borrowed her Buick and towed the broken TR4 to her house,” he says. (The TR4 stayed there through the following summer.) “Then we used her Buick to pick up the Arnolt.”

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