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KB2VXA > CARS 29.01.08 12:48l 49 Lines 2336 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: DL8OL > Repair and pay!
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From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : CARS@WW
Hi Klaus and all,
Repair and pay is right, one more reason why I now have a bicycle. I used
to do all my own routine care and repairs, now even changing a spark plug
is a nightmare and shop labor being $80+ per hour forget it. The last job
I did was for a friend, it took an hour with a meter (yes it can be done)
to trace a bad air flow sensor on a Cadillac Fleetwood. With a computer
it would have been a 5 minute job but the garage mechanic would have
charged the hour minimum. At least it was easy to get at, simply amazing
you can get at ANYTHING in a Cadillac without removing the engine. Then
where do you connect the hoist? Oh, take the top of the engine off, the
fittings are down in there SOMEWHERE?
I've heard of using a woman's stocking as a temporary belt but what if
you're driving without one? No, I don't keep them in the glove box where
someone can find them and think of me "that way". (;->) Yes, the old VW
engine would run on anything that burned, probably coal if you crush it
fine enough. (;->) Those were very versitile engines, compact and you
could easily make a dune buggy for sporting on the beach out of a Beetle,
they were very popular. Naturally it required a roll cage but since a VW
is light ordinary steel exhaust tubing, a bender and welder were all you
needed to fabricate one. Those are common shop machines, it can be done
in any well equipped garage.
I can understand banning some of those foreign imports for safety
reasons, both Germany and the US have very strict laws about such things.
Now if "they" would come up with a safe car that gets better than 30MPG
(What's that in KPG??) we just might survive into the "new age" of
alternate energy sources. I'd better stop here or I'll go into a rant
about Man's stupidity and greed.
The "good old days" of easily repaired cars are done and gone but what's
next? Logic says cars one day will be history and we'll wonder how we
survived when we look at them in museums next to those odd looking
railway locomotives that ran on... WATER???
Daddy, if they ran on water why did cars run on... what's gasoline?
Uh... ask your mother.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 10:37 on 2008-Jan-29 GMT
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