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Old Ragtops and the Urn.(Column)(chief instructor of Drivetrain USA Gordon Booth dies)(Obituary)
Byline: Steve Thompson
The gent sat down next to me, smiled and asked, "So how did you know Gordon?''
I told him about how we'd met and the column I'd done because of my respect for Gordon's work as president and chief instructor of Drivetrain USA. As I finished, we both glanced at the urn standing in the center of the table in the parish hall of St. Francis Episcopal Church, in which the ashes of Gordon's earthly remains rested.
Gordon Booth died at 61 of lung cancer on Nov. 25, 2006, and as friends of his, both the gent next to me and I knew that he would have relished the fellow's next question. "Maybe,'' the man said, "you can help me. My last British car was an Austin-Healey 3000 that I sold a long time ago, and now I want a '60s British car to have as much fun in as I did with my TR3A and my Healey. Got any suggestions?''
There followed the inevitable car-guy bench-racing session, in which he learned about me and I learned that what he was really after was a ragtop that wasn't so much fast every day as motor-around fun on Sunday, with a "wave factor.'' It's defined as a car that people would ...
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...The consortium is confident that the planning, river and air authorities are well-disposed to them. Hanson's Sir Gordon Booth should have a feel for such matters: he was consul-general in New York during the battle over Concorde's landing rights...
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