on 5/22/04 9:09 PM, Wayne Harridge at wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> prices. There was also the fan who created the only genuine
>> 1963 model
>> - self built entirely from spares. Cost him 3-4 times the
>> retail price
>> of a 1962 new example off the floor, not allowing for the labour! But
>
> I read a similar story in Popular mechanics (this was when I was a
> teenager - a few years ago) about an American bloke who did something
> similar, each pay day he went and bought a few spare parts until he had
> all he needed to build a complete car, from memory this cost him several
> times what buying a new car would be.
>
> ...Wayne
There is a probably apocryphal (sp?) story I heard once about a worker at
the Oldsmobile plant in Michigan (where I grew up) who carried out various
parts in the lunchbox, overcoat pocket, etc. and managed to accumulate
enough to build a car... and another about a retiring worker who ordered a
stripped basic car just before his retirement, then 'walked' with it down
the assembly line, where it magically collected all the expensive options as
he collected all the IOU favors he'd built up over the years...
Seems like what we really need is only the most critical parts, and some
could be 'rebuilt' instead of new manufacture. It would sure be nice if
there were still somebody building new OM-4T and OM-2s circuits. A
resilvering service for prisms would be nice too...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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