Should The Seller Open The Package?
05-21-20, 12:05 PM
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05-21-20, 01:46 PM
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I won't knock (pun not intended) the Slant Six though. the 21k mile example I had in my '69 Valiant was the smoothest running engine I've ever known. With points.
-Kurt
P.S.: If the OP's derailer was a Simplex Prestige, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The plastic bag would have will gradually disintegrated for easy opening.
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It’s like deja vu all over again...
I think the buyer should recognize that there is no package, and it is simple he that opens.
I think the buyer should recognize that there is no package, and it is simple he that opens.
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05-21-20, 02:49 PM
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05-21-20, 03:20 PM
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Huh-huh, huh-huh, huh-huh, you said "package".
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...which is why this one is well worth 80 bucks.
05-21-20, 05:24 PM
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Exactly. Bought the wrong bike.
If it can open a drawbridge, and it's worth $80 to the general public, slap "MIL SPEC" on it and sell it to the Army for $800.
-Kurt
If it can open a drawbridge, and it's worth $80 to the general public, slap "MIL SPEC" on it and sell it to the Army for $800.
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05-21-20, 08:49 PM
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Should the seller open the package?
I think we've well established what the seller should do.
The buyer is an entirely different and far more complicated matter. Is he to open the package or not? I see two equal sides to this debate. Both with chilling outcomes, existentially speaking.
I think we've well established what the seller should do.
The buyer is an entirely different and far more complicated matter. Is he to open the package or not? I see two equal sides to this debate. Both with chilling outcomes, existentially speaking.
05-21-20, 09:38 PM
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I learned to drive in a ‘69 Dodge Coronet, when I was 12. 😲 That must have been a pretty good year for slant sixes. 😎
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05-22-20, 09:40 AM
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05-22-20, 10:18 AM
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...my first car after a couple of Dodge Darts ('67, '68) was a '67 Alfa Romeo boat tail Spyder I bought when stationed in Italy.
That was when I discovered that the majority of American cars were designed to proceed in a straight line, but very quickly in a straight line.
...my first car after a couple of Dodge Darts ('67, '68) was a '67 Alfa Romeo boat tail Spyder I bought when stationed in Italy.
That was when I discovered that the majority of American cars were designed to proceed in a straight line, but very quickly in a straight line.
05-22-20, 10:35 AM
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Body roll and good handling aren't mutually exclusive! I blame BMW for initiating that fallacy. Consider for instance that this won the Rallye Monte Carlo in '63.
Racing against this.
Racing against this.
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IIRC, stock front suspension would've been torsion bar, with the aft end of the bar splined into a mount welded to the sheet metal floorboard. What could go wrong?
05-22-20, 12:30 PM
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Might be because the old Saab appears to have used the 2-stroke triple's smoke screen as a weapon against the opposition?
And because a softer suspension, despite body-roll, can do wonders for traction and handling over undulating surfaces.
The Saab's front wheel drive could have also been used to advantage, again whenever traction was found wanting.
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05-22-20, 02:20 PM
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Yeah, but when all is said and done it is, well, still a Saaaab.
That upside-down car; I believe I remember it. Wasn't it one of Patrick Bedard's follies? I reserve the right to be wrong on that; I am old (cue You Are Old, Father William)
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I'm glad you guys have taken this worthless thread I started to the next level, automobiles....
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