[NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers

[Ed Miller]

I have this experience from my younger days of a master mechanic working on a Renault that to this day makes me laugh to tears. Short story is he "somehow" set it on fire in the bay he was working and as he was running out of the garage ( ablaze ) was shouting unflattering sentences about the Renault lineage.......To be there was priceless. Thanks for bringing back that memory !!!!  
Ed M.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dean Pappas 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers


  I still have legs: they don't look like worn off stumps, now do they? Okay, they are kinda funny looking, but that's an entirely different subject.
  Dean

  Dean Pappas 
  Sr. Design Engineer 
  Kodeos Communications 
  111 Corporate Blvd. 
  South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
  (908) 222-7817 phone 
  (908) 222-2392 fax 
  d.pappas at kodeos.com 

    -----Original Message-----
    From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Ed Miller
    Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:20 PM
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    Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers


    Ok, I can't resist. How many of those 1/4 million miles were on foot..............
    Ed M.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Dean Pappas 
      To: NSRCA Mailing List 
      Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:58 PM
      Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers


      The first one was a Renault 18, the second an R21, also called a Medallion, here in the States.
      Hey, they won the F1 World championship ...

      Dean Pappas 
      Sr. Design Engineer 
      Kodeos Communications 
      111 Corporate Blvd. 
      South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
      (908) 222-7817 phone 
      (908) 222-2392 fax 
      d.pappas at kodeos.com 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Dave Burton
        Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:41 PM
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        Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers


        So what was it?
          -----Original Message-----
          From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Dean Pappas
          Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:34 PM
          To: NSRCA Mailing List
          Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Plane haulers


          Hello All,
          Don't get the idea that I unconditionally prefer a US nameplate vehicle. When Detroit wasn't making an economical, Pattern plane sized station wagon, I bought import. 
          It wasn't a brand many of you would have considered, and I got a quarter million miles out of it, so I bought another, right after. I got a quarter million miles out of that one too.

          Dean


          Dean Pappas 
          Sr. Design Engineer 
          Kodeos Communications 
          111 Corporate Blvd. 
          South Plainfield, N.J. 07080 
          (908) 222-7817 phone 
          (908) 222-2392 fax 
          d.pappas at kodeos.com 

            -----Original Message-----
            From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of mike mueller
            Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:55 PM
            To: NSRCA Mailing List
            Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Toyota


             I'm with you Dean. I prefer Fords. I have had better luck with my US cars than my 91 Toyota Previa, and 2 Honda's. I now have a 2003 Windstar that I love and a 97 Taurus that has been extremly reliable. One other factor is pricing with all the incentives I bought a pretty well equiped Windstar for $21,500 in 2003. That is money that equates to a real savings over the Honda or the Toyota which sell at a premium price. I for one can't justify the price difference. I hope people keep hating American cars so I can continue to get them cheap. Thanks to all who are helping me out. Mike

            Dean Pappas <d.pappas at kodeos.com> wrote: 
              You know, it's a terrible shame that after taking a deserved heck of a beati! ng for truly poor reliability/design back in the seventies,
              Detroit has honest-to-for-really turned their act around ... and they don't get credit for it!
              My Grand Caravan with the Stow n'Go seats is a marvellously practical vehicle.




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