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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] car sturdiness [was: Can*n Keeps Moving]
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:16:00 +0000
I've got three vehicles, two Japaneese, a Nissan 300ZX and a Toyota 4Runner, 
plus the Chevy SSR hotrod truck. They are most dependable, way more better than 
that 12-cylinder Jaguar I once had. I spent more time working on it than I did 
driving it.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
>
> > I traded it in on a '55 Chevy Bel Air red and white sports coupe,
> > which might have been the best car I've ever owned. I accidentally
> > drove it off a flooded road and sank it nearly up to the windshield
> > once. A nearby farmer drove his Farmall up and pulled me out. The
> > engine started right up, despite having been under water. They just
> > don't make them like that anymore.
> 
>   Actually, they do -- it's just that "they" are Japanese:
> 
>   Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzRLG8dA-E
> 
>   Take a 190,000-miler Toyota Hilux Diesel truck, and try and kill it. 
> They fail; among other things, they sink it overnight under the Severn 
> Bore (that's a 40 feet high tide, made of sea water). Still starts. Drop 
> a caravan on it. Still starts. Still starts. They set it on fire. Still 
> starts.
> 
>   So, that's not enough;
> 
>   Part 2:
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc4Ksz3nHM
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk
> 
>   They drop a building on it. Literally. They put it on top of a 
> 20-storey block of flats and blow the building up.. Yup, it still starts.
> 
>   -- dan
> 
> 
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