Tall Ships festival would really rather have a Buick

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t sounded like an urban legend. A myth fueled by muddled mis-understandings of foreign sailors speaking Spanish and Russian. The story goes like this:

During Tall Ships Tacoma 2005, a group of young sailors on shore leave from the Mexican sailing ship Cuauhtemoc or, perhaps, the Russian Pallada bumped into someone with a fancy car. Some versions of the story describe the car as a Jaguar. Some described it as a Mercedes. Others, a vintage roadster.

“Whatever kind of car it was, it was fabulous, and it was definitely a convertible,” said Clare Petrich, a Tall Ships festival chairwoman and Port of Tacoma commissioner.

The car owner, this stranger, according to the legend, tossed his keys to the sailors. Told them to take his car for a drive. Just bring it back when they’d had enough fun.

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