[ihc] Breakdowns, change of life, and decals

[John Hofstetter <hofs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 28, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Ryan Moore wrote:

> Now, as far as breaking things goes, does Tom take after you?  Or do 
> you
> take after him?  Either way, he seems to be more adept (although he 
> also
> seems extremely good at *fixing* stuff too!).
As you know, Ryan, I went through a recent spell of Scout breaking. At 
least at this time, it bothers me a lot more than it does Tom. Nothing 
much in the way of breaking things used to intimidate me and I had a 
lot less to work with then.

But, alas, with age comes a dread of things going wrong mechanically in 
some God-forsaken place. Maybe Tom will never be old enough to feel 
that way about his adventures.

Changing your rocker arms along side the road in the middle of a trip, 
not only makes you late for where you are going, but takes some self 
confidence. As his pseudo parent, I wouldn't want him any other way.

As for me, it's a darn good thing that I have such good buddies. Funny 
thing about Del, the Land Use guy with whom I often travel, he has few 
mechanical skills, but he brings along a lot of friends who do have 
those skills, like the BFG racing support team.

Got my Binder Bulletin decals today and they look really good. Also 
found a couple of new IH digest decals a day or two ago, so I can 
spruce up the Terra before it goes visiting again. Spruce up my Terra, 
quit laughing.

I wonder what the minimum order would have to be for the fellow who is 
doing the BB decals to do a new one for the digest?  BB is offering a 
lot of choices, but we could probably narrow a digest one down to one 
or two choices. Maybe a long decal for the inside of the windshield 
that read www.ihcdigest.com. We probably couldn't put an IH logo at the 
front and end because of copyright problems, but that would be spiffy.

Could we sell a hundred at $ 10 ?  Would it piss Bill off, if we did 
it? I guess I better ask him. Could I afford to put up a $1000 front 
money to guarantee Jeff enough buyers? No.

Hmm, think about it.

John