Re: Object

On May 19, 12:30 pm, "Richard R. Hershberger" <rrhe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On May 18, 2:28 pm, Les Albert <lalbe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 18:07:40 GMT, ebenZERO...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hactar)
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> > >In article <4rm0349svp9c9puu5gp5rn1urgnck11...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >Les Albert  <lalbe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:12:33 -0400, "MWB" <bick...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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> > >> >I still have my 45's and I have a turntable.
> > >> >My mother, 80 years old, has a rotary phone.
> > >> >The first time my kids used it, they'd stick their fingers in the
dial
> > >> >holes.
> > >> >I showed them how to use it and there was a slight learning curve.
> > >> >I don't own a cell phone, a GPS or an automatic transmission. I
would never
> > >> >buy a vehicle with out a manual transmission.
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> > >> I can understand that you don't own a cell phone or GPS, but what
is
> > >> your reason for not owning an automatic transmission?  Is it a cost
> > >> thing, or do you think that they are not sufficiently developed? 
Or
> > >> what?
> > >I'm not MWB, but:
> > >Slushbox
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> > Maybe.
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> > >Can't diagnose 'em
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> > Okay.
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> > >More expensive to maintain or buy
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> > To buy, but their maintenance over the time that most people keep a
> > car probably is less than a clutch car.



Sure, I'll play. I've got twenty years' worth of receipts on a forty
year old car. You first.


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> I have driven manual transmission cars most of my adult life.  I have
> never had to replace a clutch, because I know how to drive with one.
> Did you have some other sort of maintenance in mind?



How old is your manual transmission? I've had to replace the clutch
approximately once every twenty years.


V.
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Veronique Chez Sheep