Joe,
I agree- it's almost hilarious what some people remember or don't remember.
One of my partners in crime used to own a Jag- he didn't know an air filter
from an oil filter, so I did all of the wrenching on this machine. It
broke down, he called me- The " British Car Expert". Ok, ok, but to him, I
could wrench and I had a lot more knowledge than he did. Alright, so last
year he calls me and starts telling me he's got the hots for a second hand
Land Rover with about 100,000 on the clock ( read well-used) and they
'only' want $10,000 for it and he wants it bad. I said, "Remember all the
problems with the Jag and the cost of parts?" He had no recollection of any
of the times I tried to fix his problems w/ the Jag- he only recalled how
cool it was.
I managed to talk him out of the car after I explained that at $80. an
hour, any repairs would be beyond his budget. There was no way I would
sacrifice my time to work on a Land Rover.
Too may projects, not enough time,
Jeff Johnson
currently looking at several more projects
At 08:57 AM 1/10/2003 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
>RangerCRS wrote:
> >
> > We probably all also remember the women, the difference being that if
> > we had the chance, we'd like to have the cars back again. :-)
> > Craig
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:36:23 -0700, Dave wrote:
> >
> > >What I have found surprising about this thread -- given the number of
> > >listers (such as myself) suffering increasingly from CRS... we all still
> > >seem to remember the cars!
> > >
> > >- - Dave
>
>
>Paul Simon said it well in his song, "Kodachrome". The same thing he
>says about the girls he knew when he was single applies to cars we have
>once owned. Although, you may wish you had them again, there was a
>reason you got rid of them in the first place. Memory often blurrs
>those things as time progresses.
>
>Cheers,
>Joe
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