Thanks for all the encouragement and discouragement, I guess. I think I
about to proof my theorem that there are really only two types of cars:
1. 100% totally & fully restored - read done right
AND.
2. Everything else
This theorem, if proofed, with a 99% degree of accuracy, would lead me
to believe that you may as well buy a car in quasi decent condition vs.
a car in really good condition because you will end up redoing all of
the things on both cars eventually.
Now, where's my rum?
Over here? No?
Hmm, over there? No.
Who stole my drink?
R. Ashford Little II
www.geocities.com/ralittle2
-----Original Message-----
From: ZoboHerald@aol.com [mailto:ZoboHerald@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:53 PM
To: ralittle2@mindspring.com; 6pack@autox.team.net;
Triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Spam Alert: Re: Hypothetical question
In a message dated 4/25/2003 11:55:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ralittle2@mindspring.com writes:
Without doing a ground-up restoration, how many years will it take to
figure out all the screw-ups the DPO's have instilled on your car?
...which only gets me to thinking, what if you're the ONLY owner (or,
more accurately, the son of the original owner)?
1. Does that make one a DOO? :-)
2. Is one given credit for the well-meaning but not totally sympathetic
local gas station mechanics who did their best to help out, all the
while swearing about "these da*n little furrin' cars" and how there was
no room to work on them? (Apparently, the swing-up front end of a Herald
didn't impress them when they bashed their knuckles trying to remove a
generator or starter or fuel pump.)
3. Is one relieved of (some) blame for the fact that, while a junior in
high school, one and one's best friend did a very careful body repair,
prep and repainting, removing all possible trim and such, but managed to
have a mayonnaise-size jar of assorted nuts, washers and other bits left
over once the car was painted and back together?
4. Will one be forgiven for at least some of the above if that one
promises to be very careful during an upcoming complete restoration to
restore all the little bits that were supposed to have been there
originally? [ Note: "One" still has all those bits, and many more from
more careful, semi-catalogued disassembly of various parts cars since.]
--Andy "One" Mace
*Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er,
Triumph Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
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