Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:19:10 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
Maintenance and cost
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Makes me wish my Olds had a TR4 distributor way back when....
Now the conversation / cell phone call to the kids would go something like
"Sorry' we'll be late for dinner, we'll call you and the grand kids as soon
as we are back on the road."
Tom
www.kegkits.com
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Roger Whittaker
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Subject: Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
Maintenance and cost
dear electrics by lucas
*Maybe it was the TR4 distributor that flew apart in the middle of a
Georgia forest with Dr. Werner Von Braun's daughter in the passenger seat in
the middle of the night on the way to Atlanta. *
and he turned to her and thought he should be careful how he spoke about the
current situation,,, honey i ran out of gas would not work ...
...houston we have a problem .. seemed trite ...
thats when it struck him... brilliant he thought ...
... he sighed and looked to her face which was illuminated by the glow of
night time roadside lighting ...
ah baby you know those british ... it is not exactly rocket science :P yours
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> British cars should not be included in this discussion. I mean, we're
> using words like QUALITY here. I was a British car enthusiast for many
> years. I've had about all of 'em and worked on the rest. They are
> (were) made with hate. When I "rediscovered" VWs (I always was a bus
> junkie) I wondered why I ever fooled with those Lucas-ridden things.
>
> Maybe it was the axle that broke on an Austin Healy while it was
> sitting in the driveway the day after I bought it. Maybe it was the
> TR4 distributor that flew apart in the middle of a Georgia forest with
> Dr. Werner Von Braun's daughter in the passenger seat in the middle of
> the night on the way to Atlanta. Maybe it was the Jaguar R&P gears
> that turned to slag just cruising down the road. Maybe it was the
> unadjustable smogged triple Strombergs. Maybe it was having my 80 year
> old grandmother beat the panel behind the seat of a Sprite with a Coke
> bottle constantly so that the fuel pump would get us the 30 miles back
> to Birmingham...
>
> Don't get me started : 0
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > At 01:06 PM 4/16/2010, Roland wrote:
> >>
> >> He told my father to never buy a Mercedes, they were junk, you will
> spend
> >> twice the purchase price in repairs.
> >
> > That's not so bad really...Jaguar enthusiasts used to import
> > mechanics from England and set them up in comfort...
> >
> > :)
> > d
> >
>
--
roger w
>From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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