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Re: the passing of american mechanics

To: kmr@pil.net
Subject: Re: the passing of american mechanics
From: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:44:00 -0500

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:06:37 -0400 "Kai M. Radicke" <kmr@pil.net> writes:
>
> I completely disagree.  Encouraging teens to purchase LBCs is like 
> giving
> them a license to be your next DPO.  Do you really think they're 
> going to
> take the time, or want to, learn how to adjust points, valves, and
> everything else associated with routine maintenance?  And what about 
> more
> complicated work.
> 
> --
> Kai M. Radicke -- kmr@pil.net
> 1966 MGB -- 1974 Triumph TR-6
> 

Seems Kai may have a point here.  As I recall he was 16 when he got his
'66 MGB and little or no work, complicated or otherwise, has been done on
it since then (some three years ago, I think).  Perhaps he is right... 
teenagers are just too unfocused for such things.  Right, Kai? ;-)

David Littlefield
Houston, TX
'62 MGA MkII
'51 MGTD
'88 Jaguar XJ-S

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