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Rick Sack’s post about the blind guy with a partner in a wheel chair reminded me of this one - and it happened in El Monte! Although I swear I was not involved, It aalmost HAS to be the same two. This was in the Herald Examiner about 1970, and I don’t still have the clipping, I didn’t make a copy and sent the original to National Lampoon Magazine and then never heard from them again. They did not print the story.
A paraplegic in a wheel chair and a car set up with steering wheel controls and his accomplice, a blind guy, held up a market at the point of a shotgun, wielded by the blind guy. Picture that. Who could know where he might shoot? They took money off everybody in the store. They went outside where the blind guy had to help the legless one into the car and the store owner was able to get a good description and license number, so the called the El Monte cops and a chase ensued.
A CHASE! For 45 minutes these two eluded the cops in a small town until they crashed and were immediately surrounded by the fuzz. This was in the days of yore before L.A. bacame the chase capital of the world. Now it gets good. They escaped! They got out from under the thumb of the long arm and stole another vehicle and got away scot free! What are the chances the car they nabbed was set up for a paraplegic? It may well have been a black & white, they’d have been sitting there with the engines running, and I doubt the cops would have admitted to that much. If the guy in the chair needed a car set up for him to drive -- then who was the wheel man? I can see Ol’ Blind Melon Chittlin’ motoring down the road with his red & white cane out the window, turns being called out by his partner - and El Monte’s finest couldn’t catch ‘em.
Me they catch.
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After seeing many car chases in LA. That's a classic. Mike, did you remember around '97 there was one of these 3-4 guys who ripped off an RV and had the cops chasing them I think from Corona to the hills by interstate 5. Now that would have been a good TV commerical to show the versatility of that particular RV.
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No kidding, Cisco! Yeah, I've seen that one a few times, watched it live. If I ever go to buy one of those things that's the kind I want. And on some of these car chases where the wheels are falling off and the car STILL goes 120 mph, wow! What an engine! I want one in my car. I wish I had a copy of the letter Clyde Barrow wrote to Henry Ford at the peak of his career, extolling the virtues of the Ford V8. Hank should have paid him enough for product recognition that he could have retired from the life. On the other hand - what is with these newer cars that blow up and catch fire after only 45 minutes of chasing around? I want to know what brand they are, too, so I won't ever buy one. My old Chevy took 475,000 fairly hard miles and then I put in another engine. My truck -- I think I'll keep her.
------------------ "If it isn't fun, why do it?" Signmike@aol.com Mike Languein Doctor of Letters BS, MS, PhD ___________________
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Here's one letter from Clyde I remember reading awhile back.
The car in which Bonnie and Clyde were killed (a Desert Sand 1934 Ford V-8, once owned by Jesse and Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas) is now owned by Whiskey Pete's hotel-casino, at Stateline, Nevada, and is on display in the hotel lobby, complete with shattered windshield and 167 bullet holes, along with a letter, which may or may not be genuine, mailed to Henry Ford from Tulsa, April 10, 1934:
Dear Sir: While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got ever other car skinned and even if my business hasn't been strickly legal it don't hurt eny thing to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8. Yours truly, Clyde Champion Barrow.
I was doing some research on them cause I have a 32 pistol engraved that reads: "To Bonnie I owe you one" Clyde 2-28-32
maybe I should put it on Ebay and see what kind of dinero I can get off it?
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