[Bill Murray]

I will try to make this short as possible.

Last weekend, I thought to look in a rather odd piece of furniture I purchased some 23 years ago. It is a cabinet that stands 8 feet tall and has 24 drawers that hold standard US dimension 8"x11" paper and each drawer is about 4" deep. It's original use was for storing Engineering drawings for a company that made various kinds of systems for large office buildings. Steam plants, electrical systems etc. There were perhaps 100 such drawings still in the cabinet, some dating to the late 1800's. Fairly old piece of furniture for the US.

Anyway, to now relate to our favorite subject on this thread, Bart Vanderveen and I agreed in the mid 1980's to purge our collections of stuff we no longer needed for either research or publishing in his case. I put the bulk of my collection in large cardboard cartons and worked my way through quite a lot of it and sent him many boxes of redundant stuff or stuff I was not interested in but had just gotten in one form or another.

Bart, in turn sent a certainly equal amount of stuff back to me.

As I was up to my eyeballs in my job at the time, I ended up with a whole bunch of stuff that I wanted to keep that had not been "cataloged" and that got mixed in with the stuff Bart had sent. As it was good materiel, I stuffed it in the drawers of the above mentioned cabinet with the idea of sorting it all out at some point in time. Well, that time never seemed to come and it just lay there.

Years have now passed and that cabinet sat there unmolested for almost 20 years. A side note, I had used it earlier to store some other stuff and never changed the tags I put on each drawer to indicate that something different was in some of the drawers.

Why I do not know, I got the urge to look into that cabinet and found 8 drawers were full of the stuff mentioned above. That is where the Guy and Staff Car stuff is coming from. And a lot more than that.

Life is good sometimes.
Bill