[Rhodes22-list] Pintos and project boats.

[Slim]

Todd,

Now we know why you had to have neck surgery.  YEEEE HAAAAAAWW!!!

Slim

On 7/29/05 7:27 PM, "Todd Tavares" <sprocket80 at mail.com> wrote:

> Well,
> 
>  A beater boat can be as great a first learning boat as an old Pinto.  Case in
> point:  My first car was a Pinto.  It was yellowish-green.  I learned quite a
> bit with that car.  I learned what happens if you yank the wheel over at 60
> mph; what happens when you mix rain and bald tires; if you keep running
> through the piles of leaves raked to the curb in the rich neighborhood ---
> awaiting the vacuum truck, some wise homeowner will pile them up around a fire
> hydrant, and most important...the optimum speed necessary to jump clear over
> the jungle gym at the local elementary school is defifitely more than 45 mph.
> Bo and Luke made it look so easy!
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: R22RumRunner at aol.com
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Pintos and project boats.
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:56:08 EDT
> 
>> 
>> Michael,
>> I saw a couple of great T-Shirts this past weekend. The first one read: The
>> liver is bad, it must be punished.....so I did. The second one had: "I hear
>> voices.......and they don't like you".
>> My buddy Rodgers boat was more than a project boat. It had a huge hole thru
>> the hull and had sunk. He purchased it as salvage from the insurance company
>> for  storage fees. Today it's sailing and is worth around $4,000.00 plus the
>> great  times we've had sailing on it together....priceless. For some people,
>> it's  easier to absorb the total cost of a boat extended over the
>> period of time
>> it  takes to do the work. Labor for them is cheap, especially for a family
>> man.  There really isn't all that much that can be catastrophically
>> wrong with a
>> R22  without it showing up almost immediately upon inspection. I'm still for
>> the  rebuild.
>> Alex,
>> I doubt that there are more than a hand full of Pintos still on the
>> road......and they all have explosive warning signs hanging from
>> the rear  bumper.
>> 
>> Rummy
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