One more post and I'll dissapear . Just thought of a television
program. Now if I had $25-$35,0000 I'd find an older . say 1955 to say
1982 car when they had real solid frames. then find a custom shop to
rebuild a car from the bottom =up. I had read long ago about a woman
who had an older Ford 9 passenger station wagon which her Dad had given
them after their third baby. Her husband agreed they could spend up to
$20,000 to get a new station / family wagon. well she found I think it
was three shops and between them they totally restored her Dads gift.
new engine , frame was all repainted and well a total rebuild. the
only thing different from the original car was the paint job and a
better stereo system and something in the GPX unit. and in the end
she only spent just over $16,000. Lee
--
Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same
rate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more efficient
would the current models be? If you have not already heard the analogy, the
answer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75,
it would do three million miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enough
power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II. And if you were interested in
miniaturization, you could place half a dozen of them on a pinhead.
-- Christopher Evans
