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I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys.
http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ -- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. -- Louis L'Amour |
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On Sep 8, 5:02*am, Larry Jaques
wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ -- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *-- Louis L'Amour I hope that he had enough room to put a roll cage in there. |
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On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Bravo!! G Gunner -- "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince". |
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:36:18 -0700 (PDT), "Denis G."
wrote: On Sep 8, 5:02*am, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ I hope that he had enough room to put a roll cage in there. Maybe not. That's why he didn't jump and crush that other car on the course, eh? -- That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. -- Michael Patrick King |
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On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years |
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Rex wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20 pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years I though California outlawed electric windshield wipers, because they cause cancer? ;-) I know that some California counties class bad LEDs as toxic waste. -- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense. |
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex
wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years No, no, no. It was soiling itself due to the fear of climbing that gigantic mountain in front of it. The wipers are poo-deflectors. -- The problem with borrowing money from China is that thirty minutes later, you feel broke again. --Steve Bridges as Obama |
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:26:44 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years No, no, no. It was soiling itself due to the fear of climbing that gigantic mountain in front of it. The wipers are poo-deflectors. And they draw electricicl out of the system, causing the charging system to apply additional load to the pore little diesel three banger. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex
wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years Yes...and? Didnt you watch the video? It climbed the modest lil hill..and the wipers never quit! Big..big hamsters in that cage!! -- "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince". |
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:34:14 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote: In article , says... On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:26:44 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years No, no, no. It was soiling itself due to the fear of climbing that gigantic mountain in front of it. The wipers are poo-deflectors. And they draw electricicl out of the system, causing the charging system to apply additional load to the pore little diesel three banger. Actually if you google "Smart forfun" you'll find more information, revealing that it's a Unimog a Smart body stuck on top. Party Pooper!!! -- "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince". |
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:34:14 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote: In article , says... On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:26:44 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years No, no, no. It was soiling itself due to the fear of climbing that gigantic mountain in front of it. The wipers are poo-deflectors. And they draw electricicl out of the system, causing the charging system to apply additional load to the pore little diesel three banger. Actually if you google "Smart forfun" you'll find more information, revealing that it's a Unimog a Smart body stuck on top. On a visit to Paris in 2005, I saw a "smart car store", basically a store front with a slightly over wide door and a short ramp down to the sidewalk (pavement) displaying the various models - I want the little sports model much more than the "smart for four". Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:04:43 -0400, Gerald Miller
wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:34:14 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote: In article , says... On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:26:44 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT), Rex wrote: On Sep 8, 4:20*pm, Gunner Asch wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:02:40 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I couldn't resist sharing this with you guys. http://www.wimp.com/smartcar/ and it climbs slight hills with the wipers on!! Gunner, they haven't used vacuum wipers in 50 years No, no, no. It was soiling itself due to the fear of climbing that gigantic mountain in front of it. The wipers are poo-deflectors. And they draw electricicl out of the system, causing the charging system to apply additional load to the pore little diesel three banger. Actually if you google "Smart forfun" you'll find more information, revealing that it's a Unimog a Smart body stuck on top. I heart Mogs! I frown SmartCars. On a visit to Paris in 2005, I saw a "smart car store", basically a store front with a slightly over wide door and a short ramp down to the sidewalk (pavement) displaying the various models - I want the little sports model much more than the "smart for four". I understand that you can roll one if you hit a filtered cigarette butt with it. And it bends the unibody even if you don't roll. 3-( -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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