1972 Chevrolet Vega, 4 cylinder, aluminum block. At 50K miles a quart of oil per tank of gas (250 miles). At 60,000 miles blue smoke. At 75,000 miles I rebuilt it with iron sleeves. That rebuild lasted 100K miles till the rust issue made my feet cold.
My brand new 1966 Mustang had factory standard seat belts which I promptly unbolted and threw away. Real men didn't use them. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture In <[email protected]>, on 12/03/2009 at 12:29 PM, Howard Brazee <[email protected]> said: >Huh? The 1958 Chevy didn't have seatbelts, By the 1960's lots of cars had seat belts, at least as an option. >And it is no longer though of as odd at all when a car goes a couple of >hundred thousand miles. I don't recall ever driving a car in the 1960's or 1970's that didn't last in excess of 100,000 miles. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html _______________________________________ No viruses found in this incoming message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.8.3 http://www.iolo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
