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Skriven 2011-02-27 13:27:24 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 14510 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Canadadian wonders (was: Defector admits...)
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Hello Roy.

25 Feb 11 13:00, you wrote to me:

 RW> 25 Feb 11 18:54, Stewart Arnett wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 JD>>> The only thing that looks like rust, is a reflection I think.
 JD>>> Looks in damn good shape from what I see. And a Mercedes to
 JD>>> boot.  I would get one in a minute, were it not for the expense
 JD>>> of getting parts here.

 SA>> Roy's just turned into a greeny, green with envy. :-) and has to
 SA>> find fault.

 RW> Not really. I've stated before that I wouldn't have a MB, but if I
 RW> just had to have a German car, it'd be a BMW. More built in quality
 RW> and more reliable. But not as reliable as any of my Chevies, even the
 RW> 56.

 RW>                 R\%/itt

Never been a big fan of Beemers, see a lot sitting by the roadside here while
driving to work in the mornings. I prefer Audi as a German car, bought my a8 a
decade ago for $250.000nz and it's on it's third Cam belt, All I've had to
replace is tyres, pads, cam belts and one sensor on the engine that killed it
dead, that was the one that sensed the cam turning when cranking and cost me
less than $200.00 changed it my self in ten minute using a ten mill ratchet.
Other than a windscreen repair (hardly the fault of the car) it's been one of
the cheepest cars I've had (and is quite capable of well over 200Km/hr if given
it's head, as a couple of boy racers in their ricer's have found when they've
challenged the old fella in the Audi. It's fun to push them up to about 200K
then pull out and pass them. Now I'm past worrying about apperances I have a
piece of plywood sitting on the back seat that the rubber ducky I use to get
out to the yacht lives on when I'm not using it, cos' the trunk (we call it the
boot) is too full of other rubbish to get the ducky in. I manage the Electrical
maintainence department at the University of Auckland and a few weeks ago we
had a team of our guy's change the main switch board for on of our campus's (or
should that be Campi) that was built during the Congo uprising when copper was
short and all the mains cables there are Alloy, some are solid and were like
bending bussbars, we had to push some of the SWA' cables back up the risers and
needed a jack so I told one of the boys,"there's a 5 ton trolley jack in the
boot of the Audi", he looked and said "where" I looked and said under the water
blaster, oars and that outboard motor!" so you can guess how I treat my cars.
The jack was there just as I remembered it was.


Stewart

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