Re: [alfa] re: idiots

["The Baylys" <dabaylys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe, maybe I'm one of the aforementioned idiots ?  After all I live in a
small town, a thousand KMs from anywhere, bought a Duetto sight-unseen from
a guy who left the country the next day (really) and I'm attempting to keep
it as a driver !

By the way, bigoted new car buyers are not the exclusive domain of the USA.
(Sheesh....you guys think you are the best at EVERYTHING) ;-)

Beatle
Thickskinned and wishing I were drunk
'67 Duetto
Oz
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Elliott" <jee@domain.elided>
To: "Alfa Romeo Digest" <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:07 AM
Subject: [alfa] re: idiots


> Am I missing digests again?  What was said that Dean found so idiotic
> and/or offensive?  Was it the suggestion that it wouldn't be
> unreasonable to retain the transaxle layout?  Les's claim that a
> modified Alfetta gearbox could handle V8 torque?  Unless I missed a
> post or two, or people flamed him off-digest, all I can figure is
> that he was drunk when he got pissed off and left, because he didn't
> qualify that final post with "I'm not drunk."  Unlike our old friend
> Stu, for example, I don't get the impression that anyone wanted him
> gone, and I think it's a shame that people are so easily offended
> that they leave us altogether.  I certainly enjoy the handful of
> non-USA perspectives that we get on this list--without them, I'd just
> have to daydream about what things are like in far-off lands where
> people build tube-frame Alfetta sillouhette racers and mid-engined
> specials with Alfasud drivetrains, bodyshops actually do bodywork,
> new car buyers aren't so bigoted, no one mandates pre-1972
> headlights, and hardware stores sell crush washers and metric
> threaded rods.
>
> So...any of the petty idiots out there want to tell me what I need to
> do to get at the rear crank seal on my spare GTV-6 motor (it still
> has a flywheel on it, and I don't know how difficult it may or may
> not be to remove it)?
>
> Joe Elliott
> '82 GTV-6
> Oxford, Ohio, USA
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