Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:26:18 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Casfor Clunkers
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all right !
Min wage for CEO's and high end desk jockies ...........I'll second that
motion !
now...........cash for clunkers.....
well, rather misnamed ........more like 'credit towards a new car, if both
the old and new car qualify.'
but what about my 'new' 200 dollar 1978 V-8 fuel injected 450SLC mercedes
benz sports car I just bout a couple of hours ago ?? !
Does that quailify ?
guess I better insure it right away, and get started on that one year
period......
trouble is .............Mr. Obama .........I have absolutely ZERO interest
in driving a hybrid or modern car like that.
I'd feel like I was 'just along for the ride' ............that on board
computers and likely secret government ones will have more to say about how
I drive than I do. Good fuel milage is great .........and there are fine
classy older small cars that can do just great milage wise, and you can have
some Class by driving one. I'd feel like 'one of the millions of schmucks'
if I was driving a new hybrid,
so sorry, you can't pay me to own one of those new funny things.
Like, they'll get my vanagon when they pry ithe keys from my cold dead
fingers.
btw, seriously, right around 1988 is my favorite era for car technology.
It's not too, too crazy complicated......
there are ABS brakes, air bags, and electronic fuel injection , but the
cars are not too crazy yet, around the late 80's.
an example of 'too crazy '.......
tire pressure monitor systems.
On some new cars, like 2008 ........just to rotate the tires, you have to
'teach' the computer for the system where you put each tire on the car in
its new position. . You do that with a special interface tool of course,
and electronic one. Early to mid 90's are not bad either.
Vanagons .........they transend all of that ......and are nearly infenitely
modifiable ......ain't nothin' like 'em.
now if I'd just get it together and finish up this quite decent 85 high top
adventurewagon and get it on theSamba for sale !~
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Casfor Clunkers
> Didn't mean any dissrespect to the piscadores who harvest most of the
> fruit
> in the Northwest. They work really hard and are certainly nice people.
> They seem to be doing all right, better off than some here in the US.
> Yeah,
> they should be paid a lot more for what they do. We all should, except
> maybe for a few of our bankers, brokers, and insurance CEOs...They should
> be
> paid minimum wage..
> Don Hanson
>
> Way off topic, sorry moderators..end of thread for me.
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> <I could sell it to a migrant fruit picker as family transport..they
>> seem
>> to
>> like the older large size vans, but I'd probably only get a few hundred
>> bucks that way..>
>>
>> Not if you paid them what they're worth.
>>
>> Not sure if you really meant that, Don. Why not donate it to them as they
>> have earned it doing the work nobody else wants to.
>>
>>
>> Michael in San Antonio
>> 91GL AT 'Gringo'
>> 73 Beetle
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Don Hanson
>> <dhanson928@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> I'll check into it. Buy some plates and insurance and I would still be
>>> ahead..Drive it down to the DMV or where ever and make about $3k of free
>>> money towrards a replacment for...my 1977 Dodge V8 automatic 10mpg
>>> van... Don
>>> Hanson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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