Hey is this why I get the Sept issues of magazines in early Aug?
Larry
>>>>On 8/8/99 8:07 AM so and so (Robert Duquette) said. (And I quote:)
>Hey Doug!
>
>I see your point, but my analogy was when things were manufactured and
>introduced, not when the materials were available.
>
>In your example, 'my' car would still be a 1965 model, built in '64. Even
>if it did use the steel that was from the 1960 stockpile.
>
>In your original reply to this post, you were saying that purchasing a 2000
>model year car in 1999 isn't logical. I never did like the way they've done
>that. My understanding is that it was originally done as a one-upmanship
>(is that English?) kind of thing. The companies wanted to get their product
>available to the consumer ahead of the competition. And so they made them
>available a little earlier ... and it kept escalating until they really
>couldn't go much earlier.
>
>If the car was built early and spent some of it's early life in shipment to
>the US or in storage or even if it was introduced a bit early or perhaps it
>didn't sell and sat on the lot beyond the model year, I think that we are
>still correct in calling it by the model year for which it was produced. ??
>
>Robert D.
>How did I get myself into this?
>... and how do I get myself out? # ;^)>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>C'mon now Robert, you can mess with my mind better than that......
>>
>>So, if the iron ore that was made into the steel that your car was made
>from
>>was extracted from the mine in 1955, and sat in a stockpile until 1960, is
>>your car a 1955 or a 1960?
>>
>>Top that! ;)
>>
>>Doug Ingram
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>>To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 3:07 PM
>>Subject: Re: finding out more
>>
>>
>>>Let me mess with your mind a bit ...
>>>
>>>If your child was conceived in 1999 and born in 2000, what is it then? #
>; ^)>
>>>
>>>Robert D.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Doug Ingram <dougi@home.com>
>>>...
>>>>greater value. How can you go out today and buy a 2000 model year car
>when
>>>>it is only August 1999? If your child is born next week, are you going to
>>>>tell people it was born in the year 2000?
>>>...
>>>>
>>>>Doug Ingram
>>>>Victoria BC
>>>>1958 Frogeye (April 10, 1958)
>>>>AN5L/636
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
>>>>>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>>>>Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:06 AM
>>>>>Subject: Re: finding out more
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This brings up a question I had been wondering about. Do people
>consider
>>>>>their car's age from the date built or the date sold or originally
>>>>>registered? My Midget was built in 1968 and sold in 1969 (vin dates it
>>at
>>>>>68 - registration dates it at 69)
>>>>>
>>>>>So do I have a 1968 Midget or a 69? No big deal either way, just
>>curious.
>>>>>
>>>>>Robert
>>>>>http://www.woozy.com/midget
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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