RE: [ihc] location, location, location

["John M. Adams" <jma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ihc@domain.elided [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> John Hofstetter
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:20 PM
> To: John M. Adams; ihc-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: [ihc] location, location, location
>
> Talk about coincidence. We're staying for the month at an RV park
> in Desert
> Hot Springs and this weekend a contingent of Cortez owners (about 30) took
> over the back lot that is reserved for clubs and overflow.

Lucky! Maybe you'll take pictures?

> Interesting to see so many of the old beasts. I had to go to the
> internet to
> get much information about them. Very interesting history. For example, it
> originally came out with Chrysler's slant six and was incredibly under
> powered.

Yeah, a good engine, but kinda light for that application. I don't think
they made a V8 (318?) option until '69.

> By the way, John A., when we are home, we are in California's Mother Lode
> country. We spend the winters in Desert Hot Springs and the Death Valley
> area.

Hey, I used to work out there. In and around Arnold on HWY 4. I did trim
work for a builder there for a couple of years. I worked out of my '64
T'All. (There, I snuck the IH content in at the last.)

My map is shaping up! (I put your pin near Sonora, John, as the "Gateway to
the Mother Lode".) Thanks, -John A.

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