[Rhodes22-list] Pintos and project boats.

[Saroj Gilbert]

ROFLOL!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Pintos and project boats.


> 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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