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Best highway car I have ever owned, a tank of a 1984 MB. Wish I had it now. What a highway car that was.

Not as good as the BRC for driving around. But boy for the highway.

Full grown person could sleep long ways in the back.

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BRC… I was loyal. Sadly, it got passed along to my younger siblings and I know not of its fate. It was a tank… I remember skidding off the highway during one stretch of -30 degree weather and taking out a whole line of barbed wire fence. Nary a scratch on the BBC. “Puckered, indeed was I,” remarked the young Jedi.

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Big doings in Idaho. I imagine that there were a bunch of puckers in Russia. Hell, it could have been the Americans?

Good car, Fred. Were you loyal to it or did you junk it?

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On August 10, 1972, I was spending the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at MIT back home in southeastern Idaho. Working in the parts department of the local tractor store, I witnessed what is now referred to as the 1972 Great Daylight Fireball. (Wiki it.)

I was driving south and saw that sucker come over the horizon. Since we lived near the National Reactor Testing Station (home to Adm. Rickover’s nuclear sub program), I thought it was the Soviets for sure. I stopped the car, got out, and watched it speed DIRECTLY overhead. It was the damnedest thing I’ve ever witnessed. The MASSIVE sonic boom followed AFTER I was back in the BBC (big black car, 1956 Buick Special).

According to various reports the fireball was an ASTEROID that came in at a flat angle and skipped back out of the atmosphere somewhere over Alberta. Mass was estimated (broad range) of between 10 and 1,000 tons.

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It is funny that this huge explosion — the equivalent of a small nuclear weapon — did not trigger more of a conspiracy controversy.

Was it really a small nuke exploded by the US or Iran?

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It is very confusing to me.

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yeah > just the gut reaction conspiracy theorist in me. . .why create panic on something so unpredictable when you can just say – – wow, missed it after the fact?

I think they missed how close these were going to be.

Are you saying they knew, but weren’t allowed to tell?

i’m guessing they are predicting all of them, but are’nt allowed to tell anyone.