On Tue, 22 Nov 1994, Andy Mace wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 1994, W. Ray Gibbons wrote:
>
> [cut, cut here]
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> > I said, "Well, at least the car wasn't perfect before the accident. Look,
> > the rear fender was full of bondo." It was; the crumpled left rear fender
> > had about 1/8 inch of your basic pink bondo over very rough-looking
> > aluminum. The mechanic said, "That is probably factory work. Sometimes
> > the panels don't line up and they bondo them."
>
> [snip, snip there]
>
>
> OTOH, with the Land Rover, maybe the company is trying to save a few
> Pounds by making do with worn-out panel tooling. But that leads to the
> question of "why bother making perfectly straight panels for a vehicle
> that begs to be thrashed about off-road?"
>
> Now, the REAL question: was the Defender still driveable? I'd expect
> nothing less....
>
> Andrew Mace
>
A correction is needed. When I returned to pick up my car, the humpbacked
Rover was still there, and I realized it was not a Defender. It was an
older model, I am not sure what they were called. One of those imported
just before the Defender which had the pipe racks surrounding the body.
And to answer the REAL question, I think it was. I planned to collect my
car, and then go over and check the exact model so I could correct my
mistake, but it was gone before I got back. I didn't see a tow truck.
So yes. It must have looked like an inchworm going down the road, but it
went down the road.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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