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I see! B for Beatles!
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B was for Beatles, and V was for vintage. But John Hall seems to want to be secretive about what C stands for. Circa, classic, custom, and clone were already guessed and were wrong.
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Thanks for the link, Stan, & thanks Bjorn for the site!
Great stuff, but man, my memory is lousy!
THAT is exactly the ad I remember from the magazine.
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C = Cindalee
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I believe that was guessed, too.
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Seems to me, if JH has desired to keep what the 'C' stands for a secret to this point, it stands to reason, if it had been correctly guessed, he wouldn't have said, "Yeah, that's it."
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SG - SnotGlo
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Post by sloop_john_b »

LOL - how could we forget?

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Re: "C" -- just read in the Bacon/Day book that the Capri series was named after the Hall family cat. So "C" could be anything.
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BZA - Bronzeglo Abomination

Well thank Zeus at least ONE person is paying attention!
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Post by bassduke49 »

Also from the Bacon/Day book: Frank C. Hall's middle name was Cary, and his wife's middle name was Catherine. Lots of C's to be "C"ryptic with!
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Has anybody mentioned RAS yet?..
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So what did they name the cat exactly? "Cat"? Image
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Capri
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My middle name is Cary as well but that's not it. As I've said before, Circa or Collector would probably be fine Choices.

There was a bass named after another of my cats, by the way.
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