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Bill Connelly
Guest
The List has been a bit quiet this eve, so here are a few ramblings to fill
the void:
It's probably an open secret by now that Ol' Bilgey's a bit of a lubricant
fetishist, but I've still gotta tell folks that I got Rob Vondracek's
improved engine oil and land transmission dipstick assemblies in the mail,
and firmly believe that these would be fine and sensible additions to ANY
Amphicar...Slavish originality be damned. If his jack point plug-in
swimming step and all those other gimcracks Rob's been quietly developing
are of a similar quality of workmanship, then I must say that weighed
against the truly sink-or-swim barest survival issues one reads about in
those old newsletters of the 60's and 70's that I've been scanning lately
for the Club website, we are now truly living in a Golden Age of Amphicar
ownership. That land tranny filler and stick assembly of Rob's is quite
simply more than just some "make-do solution." It's really a work of
artistic beauty, with its the smooth hard alloy lathed and ribbed dipstick
knob gleaming like some still-in-box Klingon marital aid. Mmmmmm... Well,
must go and test my fluids now....
But first, with Rob's, Gord's, Dave's, Scott's, Roger's, Allan's, Hugh's,
John's, Chris' and others whose strivings towards the improvement of the
breed can be found on the Club Classifieds at http://www.amphicar.ads.htm I,
or one, feel lucky to own an Amphicar in 2004. And next time someone asks
me, "But what about parts?", I'll answer truthfully, "The parts situation is
better now than when they were in the showrooms." And I'll mean it.
Bring on Celina 2004 and a lakeside beachhouse!
~Bilgey~
the void:
It's probably an open secret by now that Ol' Bilgey's a bit of a lubricant
fetishist, but I've still gotta tell folks that I got Rob Vondracek's
improved engine oil and land transmission dipstick assemblies in the mail,
and firmly believe that these would be fine and sensible additions to ANY
Amphicar...Slavish originality be damned. If his jack point plug-in
swimming step and all those other gimcracks Rob's been quietly developing
are of a similar quality of workmanship, then I must say that weighed
against the truly sink-or-swim barest survival issues one reads about in
those old newsletters of the 60's and 70's that I've been scanning lately
for the Club website, we are now truly living in a Golden Age of Amphicar
ownership. That land tranny filler and stick assembly of Rob's is quite
simply more than just some "make-do solution." It's really a work of
artistic beauty, with its the smooth hard alloy lathed and ribbed dipstick
knob gleaming like some still-in-box Klingon marital aid. Mmmmmm... Well,
must go and test my fluids now....
But first, with Rob's, Gord's, Dave's, Scott's, Roger's, Allan's, Hugh's,
John's, Chris' and others whose strivings towards the improvement of the
breed can be found on the Club Classifieds at http://www.amphicar.ads.htm I,
or one, feel lucky to own an Amphicar in 2004. And next time someone asks
me, "But what about parts?", I'll answer truthfully, "The parts situation is
better now than when they were in the showrooms." And I'll mean it.
Bring on Celina 2004 and a lakeside beachhouse!
~Bilgey~