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The first was a liine The second, a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 in yelloith the shaker hood, rear slats over theand the quarter-mile clock in the dashboard The third was a 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible, red with a black interior, red-line tires and air conditioning The last was a 1967 Corvette in Greenwood green, with the factory speed package and locking rear differential

The man who carefully reht with thick brown hair As soon as the last car, the Corvette, was on the runway, he reached into the glove box, removed a letter, then climbed out and lit up a Camel filter

“Youfollowed by a dozen soldiers

“Yes,” the general said

“I’ive you this”

The general scanned the letter, folded it and placed it in his rear pants pocket “These all original?”

“They are,” Lowden said “The serial numbers all match”

Lowden then eneral to walk over to the Superbird and started explaining the car, the documentation and the rare options By the time Lowden had finished with the second car, the Boss 302, the general stopped him

“You want—” he started to say just as Lowden’s cell phone rang

“Sorry,” Lowden said as he answered He listened for a eneral

“They want to know if it’s a deal,” he said, placing his hand over the telephone

The general nodded his head in the affirmative

“He said okay,” Lowden said

A second later he hung up the telephone and turned back to the general “Noere you about to ask me?”

“I ondering if you had tieneral said, “so we ht talk about the cars”