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> From: Scott Gardner <gardner@lwcomm.com>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Origins of "car bug"?
> Date: 06 September 1997 02:07
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> I got to thinking tonight--Where did each of us get this love for
> tinkering with/restoring/driving old cars? No one in my family
ever
> got the bug, if you don't count the two Fiat 850s my oldest brother
I think it is the basic felling of achievment over
technology......that you can
actually tell people about and take pleasure in showing offf your
work, AND the proving run has some appeal in itself!
"I just fixed the belt on my hoover dustette!
wanna come round and clean some carpet?"
palls into insignificance with
"I just got the engine back into the MG-A
fancy coming out for a spin to see how see runs?"
However a similar task carried out on a Chrysler Neon...
"I've just de-bugged the software for the primary cigarette lighter
pre-heating coil,
fancy coming for a smoke"
doesn't attract much attention since,
(i) I couldn't fix much on my Ford Mondeo (that wasn't suspension)
without a room full of diagnostic equipment
(ii) If it was broken there would not be a man in greasy overalls in
a shed down the road (or a blacksmith!) that could fix it
(iii) fixing it would probably be achieved by replacing it with
another one that cost $1500 not $15
(iv) i guess most modern cars get fixed in the main dealers this one
gets the F**D treatment (thank you company!)
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John C Bullas and COO the "non-standard" '78 1275GT
"If it don't leak, smell, smoke, melt or burn....
It can't be made for a Mini"
Http://www.netcentral.co.uk/~johnbullas/home.htm
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