Re: [DMCForum] Village Idiot Returns -- I'm Still Here
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Re: [DMCForum] Village Idiot Returns -- I'm Still Here
- From: Ryan Wright <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:25:03 -0700
Hi Bill,
Nice to know you're still doing well. Keep in touch from time to time.
And, I don't know how often we have to keep telling you this, but
you're not the village idiot.
Does anyone have a better nickname for Walt to adopt? Something more
polite, perhaps?
-Ryan
On 9/1/05, content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just received an eMail asking if I was still alive, still an owner, etc.
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> I am, and I am. Am using the DeLo for transportation to the university
> because it's the only tagged vehicle equipped with air conditioning.
> Hopefully no one will mess with it in the parking lot (attracts more
> attention than I'm comfortable with).
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> All other days I'm living out of the trucks. Am absolutely killing
> myself building furniture for the expanded EC program at church. Was
> helping with building renovations too, but that was before I became a
> full time cabinet maker (volunteer, of course).
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> Lost interest in the Forum when everyone jumped all over my case for
> mentioning the simplicity of carburetion, then wee wee'd all over
> themselves regarding diesel injection for that exact same reason
> (simplicity). Now I see that everyone has lost interest in converting
> their DeLo's to diesel in favor of electrification. Please...
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> Not that it matters to anyone, but my carbureted little silver car
> continues to perform flawlessly. No hot start issues. No hot gasoline
> issues. No melting headlight switch. Is still dented & dirty (sans
> functional angle drive), but has yet to miss a beat. All I do is add
> gas and drive.
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> Oh -- my replacement DMCH door strut FINALLY showed up, so I can now
> transport a passenger. Did have to disassemble and rig a repair for
> the passenger seat belt retractor. The design really isn't very good
> -- hope one day to swap them out for old Ford units.
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> Bill Robertson
> #5939
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