Re: Dated yesteday?

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Well, John, this Budd's for you! <G> (Sorry for the pun, but many modern 
cars seem to be built out of Bud cans) As for the future, I have been 
looking at it, and developing my AMC stroker motor in such a way that it 
will be able to convert to a fuel cell in the future. For the time being, it 
will run on LPG or Natural Gas (both currently under the price of gasoline 
by nearly 1/2) until such a time as the "next" fuel is ready. Wish I had the 
$$ and time to build a fleet of rigs like mine. Could you see the looks on 
the greenies faces? A big truck that can haul a load and what comes out of 
it's tailpipe? Gagging noxious clouds of chemicals? Nope. CO2 and water 
vapor with nary a trace of excess hydrocarbons.



From: "Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Dated yesteday?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:04:27 -0500

My error list. I like to goose the flock with words and love it if any geese
honk back, but Automobile spelled Kammback korrectly, a Gremlin was shown
with Solomon (but a Pacer was shown with Puras), Hemmings' '67 Ambassador
was shown with both amber rectangular infill bumper lights and round
grille-mounted ones (nobody knows?), Avanti doesn't show up in Black Cherry
Pearl, Scion tC does (and '95-'96 Impala SS shows very well in BC Metallic),
you won't be shown to the pit bulls in that convertible corral (your only
"woe" will be wanting to take a half-dozen cars home) and I showed restraint
by not writing that "Nash made Buddism into a religion" (which would have
been funnier) because thin skins in AMC circles might not have seen the
joke.

Buddism, not Buddhism, as invented in the 1920s, refers to the Budd
Company's pressed-steel [sometimes called, not altogether correctly,
monocoque] body manufacturing processes, by which automotive shells could
only be made by big, expensive tools that demanded huge production runs to
pay their investment.  While GM turned Turret Tops into
The-Way-It-Was-And-Will-Be, Nash made "parts-into-a-whole industry."  Until
recently, with the rise of so-called "alternative" manufacturing methods
(see Fiat, Audi or Mercedes if you want to be smart --- no capital, but a

big presence already: don't blame me if you click to see what's coming...),