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Anyone know what year Vette it is?
Powell: Born to Be Wild
You guys curious about what our former secretary of state is up to these days? (Aside from getting frisked and wanded by airport security?)
The New York Daily News says Colin Powell happily divulged that info the other night when a fellow dinner party guest at the Kuwaiti ambassador's residence inquired. "I get into my shiny, red Corvette, drive up and down the George Washington Parkway and try to outrace the Park Police," Powell said.
Surely he's not turning outlaw, is he?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Mar17.html
About 1/2 way down.
Powell: Born to Be Wild
You guys curious about what our former secretary of state is up to these days? (Aside from getting frisked and wanded by airport security?)
The New York Daily News says Colin Powell happily divulged that info the other night when a fellow dinner party guest at the Kuwaiti ambassador's residence inquired. "I get into my shiny, red Corvette, drive up and down the George Washington Parkway and try to outrace the Park Police," Powell said.
Surely he's not turning outlaw, is he?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Mar17.html
About 1/2 way down.
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I'm betting either an early C2 or a late model C4. Don't see him in the C5. Too showy for (ex) Secty of State. Great to know he's one of us.....
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I could see him in a relatively new Z06 - more firepower (for an ex-Army guy).
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Oh-Oh...
Sat Jan 22nd, 2005 at 08:08:16 AM PDT (none / 0) #6
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Powell's 'free at last" celebration delayed:
January 22, 2005
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Plans for a Fast Getaway Take a Detour
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
ASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - If there is a Washington lesson here, it is don't put your Vette ahead of a vetting.
A 2005 silver-gray Corvette had just been delivered to Colin L. Powell when he got home from the office on Wednesday, his last day on the job as secretary of state. Or so he thought.
Moments later, Mr. Powell found out that he would be in office another week after Democrats delayed the vote on his successor, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser. So there went his plans for spending his first days of freedom tooling around town in his new car, said Kenneth I. Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff and a friend of Mr. Powell.
The car was Mr. Powell's gift to himself for his four years in service to Mr. Bush, Mr. Duberstein added. "It was always his dream to own a Corvette," he said....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/po...22cabinet.html
Sat Jan 22nd, 2005 at 08:08:16 AM PDT (none / 0) #6
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Powell's 'free at last" celebration delayed:
January 22, 2005
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Plans for a Fast Getaway Take a Detour
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
ASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - If there is a Washington lesson here, it is don't put your Vette ahead of a vetting.
A 2005 silver-gray Corvette had just been delivered to Colin L. Powell when he got home from the office on Wednesday, his last day on the job as secretary of state. Or so he thought.
Moments later, Mr. Powell found out that he would be in office another week after Democrats delayed the vote on his successor, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser. So there went his plans for spending his first days of freedom tooling around town in his new car, said Kenneth I. Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff and a friend of Mr. Powell.
The car was Mr. Powell's gift to himself for his four years in service to Mr. Bush, Mr. Duberstein added. "It was always his dream to own a Corvette," he said....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/po...22cabinet.html
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Originally Posted by savewave
He owns a 2005 coupe. 
I guess he can afford one now.
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Originally Posted by mqqn
Hi savewave -
I guess he can afford one now.
best regards -
mqqn
I guess he can afford one now.
best regards -
mqqn
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I've always admired him. In his book, he talks about having driven a VW Bug back in the day. He's come a long way.
