Joe, I don't drive new cars, but they aren't rusty either. Rusty is a cancer that you can never cure. Been there, done that. Lucky you have a good engine. My Ford Freestar is a piece of junk... Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2010, at 05:37 , William Robb wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" >> Subject: Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest, February >> 2010 >> >> >>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> As I mentioned earlier in this thread, a friend of mine has been >>>> accosted by >>>> the police twice in the past year for photographing while in a >>>> wheelchair. >>> >>> Well no, I believe you said in his VAN. >>> Van with handicapped plates, I'd wonder. >>> Old beater van, rusting in spots, I'd be all over it! >> >> Relatively new van, no rust, handicapped plates, little guy with gray hair >> (he's 65). >> But this leads to an intersting question: >> Why would you be all over an old vehicle with some rust? >> Are people who can't afford new cars somehow automatically second class >> citizens or criminals who deserve to be treated with less respect than >> someone who has the wherewithall and interest in buying a new car every few >> years? >> >> William Robb > > Wait just minute, boys. I drive an old van (mini variety) with a rusty roof > and peeling paint thanks to a bad paint formula decision made some 25 years > ago by some Chrysler chemist. But the engineers also made a decision to put > a Mitsubishi made 3.3 liter V-6 in it that is rumored to be able to run > forever with proper care. I'm not one to flaunt my feigned largess with new > cars (in fact I can't afford a new anything other than food and Pentax > equipment) but it does put me in a much more dim light amongst my peers. > Bothers me not. My hunk of steel and plastic parts will not need to be > replaced for many years to come (fingers crossed) allowing some portion of > steel and oil derived plastic to remain unused in building said replacement. > > I get no respect. > > But I've bought enough carbon credits by now with this boat to get a new > Pentax body every year for the past three, and perhaps the next three! Hoya > loves me. Soon many beautiful young women will be lining up to be > photographed by my elite equipment, I'm told. > > So HAH! > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
