Re: Wow what a day!

Post #116,999 by Fuat 9/7/03 10:49:46 PM Reply	Re: Wow what a day! Congrats again to your wife. Was nice seeing you all yesterday. What kind of car did you get?
Post #117,024 by Arkadiy 9/8/03 8:14:54 AM Reply	Saab 1996, 106,000 miles, $3400 -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #117,089 by Ashton 9/8/03 3:36:50 PM Reply	Heh.. :-\ufffd
Post #117,385 by tuberculosis 9/10/03 6:25:59 PM Reply	Sweet My last two cars were Saabs. Probably my next one will be too (if I ever buy one again). I love em. Java is a joke, only it's not funny. --Alan Lovejoy
Post #117,400 by Ashton 9/10/03 9:54:44 PM Reply	Had 5 all told BUT.. of the pre-US merger and transmogrification - about whose reliabilty (accessibility for service?) I know virtually nada. The Model 99 was spawned in '69, building a modrin-shape car augmenting the then still-produced legendary, but bathtub-shaped 96s (Ford V-4s!) of Monte Carlo Rallye fame. Swedish engineers descended from the aircraft part of S.A.A.B. They Loved Us and wanted us alive to buy a replacement after some er.. lapse. (I believed that before I picked up my first 99 in Malm\ufffd; can testify to 2 examples, incl. a SO's adventure with a Mexican road-bank / no shoulders.) So.. let us know if you spring for a late one. My bet - it will go where you point it and also stop. (Even if the ads say silly things now about Turbos and Elites and Yuppidity runamok) Cheers, Ashton ..but my '94 Acura Plutocrat is still likely to nip you at the top end ;-)
Post #117,662 by Arkadiy 9/12/03 4:31:08 PM Reply	So we had our "sink-or-swim" experience... Picked up the car at the dealer. 80 miles from home. At 8 PM. My wife drove it home. All the way. Almost 2 hours. Mostly highways. With lots of roadwork, broken pavement and no shoulder. We actually got lucky. One of the fog lamps is not working, so she had a rather distinct light signature. If not for that, I have no idea how I'd recognize her behind me. After this, I have supreme confidence in her driving abilities and her luck. (oh, did I mention that I prayed throughout the entire trip? :) ) -- One Buffalo Bill And one Biffalo Buff
Post #117,988 by Fuat 9/17/03 1:37:42 AM Reply	Re: So we had our "sink-or-swim" experience... Congratulations! For this you blew off our meeting, eh? :-) [link\|http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/thebiblioholic\|Freed any good books lately?--BookCrossing]
Post #118,031 by Arkadiy 9/17/03 2:34:33 PM Reply	Yes, more is the pity. -- One Buffalo Bill And one Biffalo Buff

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