On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Stan Wilder wrote: > I'm certainly glad that it is you and not me with that fleet of money > suckers. > I'm envisioning a wire cage in your two car garage with a sign on the > shelf of the split door that says parts department. > I'm visualizing the wire basket that is labeled *waiting for parts*. > What ever possess a person to collect a fleet of *known to be > problematic* vehicles ? Part of the trick is, if you have enough of them from roughly the same era, you can always make the one you want to drive work by cannibalizing parts from the other ones. ;) They used to follow this same theory at the college I went to, with a "known to be problematic" model of Sun computer workstation. Incidentally, all cars are "known to be problematic" after they reach a certain age. My parents' 1985 Crown Victoria was getting pretty problematic by the time we got rid of it around 1993. I've known people who had VWs that had a much longer trouble-free lifespan than eight years.
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