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Re: [Shop-talk] Of mice and...Jeeps!

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Of mice and...Jeeps!
From: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:15:17 -0500
*No oil filter on a '74 VW Beetle.*
*Tony*


On 9/17/07, David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Doug Braun wrote:
> > While we're on the subject, does anybody know when was
> > the last car sold with:
> >
> > 1: A flathead engine?
> > 2: No full-flow oil filter?
> > 3: Mechanical brakes?
> > 4: Front drum brakes?
> > 5: No power brakes?
> >
> > In a few years, we can ask about manually-cranked windows...
>
>    I think we can already talk about non-power steering.  Everything seems
> to have PS now, whether or not it's necessary.  The cream of that crop
> being the Toyota MR Spyder, weighing a whopping 2100 pounds, with the
> motor in the back, running 185 front tires, and *still* having
> power-steering.
>
> --
> David Hillman
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