i am on the whitelist but still bounced
--R
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] No More Tappets
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:31:26 -0400
From: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
And they all had Free Tibet, Save the Whales, Something Eritrea (I never
figured that one out, did not even know what it was) -- these are
collectively known as "Cambridge Cadillacs." They were usually pretty
rusty and clapped-out, were seen mostly in Cambridge, driven by old
hippies (who at that time were not really old hippies, they were the
academic types who were wannabe hippies, and older) who hung around
Hahvahd doing god knows what, and shopped at the Crate and Barrel on
Mass Ave, and neo-hippies who were So Very Special. The women all had
straight graying hair, probably braided their armpit hair, and did not
shave their legs (most of which you could not see because they wore
those long denim skirt and knee socks with clogs they bought at the
Birkenstock store on Mass Ave. The guys were all weenies with wire-rim
glasses and smug looks under their beards, and were somewhat emaciated
from eating the proto-macro-vegan-biotic diet. At that time we could
use the most descriptive word for them, but that is verboten these days.
What was that movie in about 1971 where that girl got, uh, "known" in
Hahvahd Yahd or somewhere by some Hahvahd Lawr type? Anyway, that was
pretty much it. Those guys catered to that crowd but I found them to be
rather expensive, and obnoxious too. They had a shop over in an
industrial district, sorta run down, the shop was sorta half-assed, they
were totally half-assed, the place was a pit. The whole crowd was
pretty much idiots all trying to outdo one another with their "caring"
and none of them knew sh...stuff about much of anything useful. Now
that sort of thing appeals to Boston Public TV and Radio patrons, WGBH,
still does. They have probably had 47 meetings about it, and how to
keep the cash cow going, though none of them would have any kind of
admission that was what it was about... $$$.
--R
On 6/11/12 8:03 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
If you lived in Boston during their heyday, you would understand why. Like
Texans had Suburbans, Bostonians had Volvos.
Dan
On Jun 11, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
They seemed to have a decent grasp of typical problems with 1970's era
Volvos. Beyond that they were guessing.
Allan
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1979 300SD
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