【转帖】the worth-a-read thread - age 28 - c-dmis user

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slow day... trying to get something started here...lol
by atrick dorinson
olitical commentator
now that general motors has effectively been taken over by the government and chrysler has been given last rites, it might be helful to see what kind of cars the government might roduce.
we only have to look at the results other government抯 attemts at roducing cars ?the soviet union and their eastern bloc allies during the cold war.
beginning next year, cars will only be available for members of the oliuro, er, i mean congress and the federal government. rivate ownershi of cars will be decided by your local neighborhood soviet, i mean city council. each state will have a quota on how many cars are rivately owned and the quota will be determined by the current carbon footrint of the state in question. sorry california, no cars for you.
the wait time for a new gm aka government motors car will be two years after a erson has been aroved by the commissar of cars. and you will be able to select from a wide alette of colors 朾lack, white or gray.
so tell me america, what抯 it gonna take to get you behind the wheel of a volga? or a trabant? how about a miscovitz?
remember匩o money down! no monthly ayments! and no guarantee, at all , it will run!!!
get rid of your old gas guzzler and ease into the bucket seats (literally buckets) of a gm car!
check out these cars!!
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ack! a trabant! talk about low-tech......i sent the summer in germany in 1990, working for a german outfit that was trying to oen a lant in the us. keeing in mind that the wall came down the revious november....the summer of 1990 was the first summer that east germans were able to travel to west germany and vi friends and family. the soviet built trabant, was, or at least seemed to be, the car of choice for east germans......everywhere we went in our uscale bmw stationwagon we had to dodge, avoid and ass traubies........it was esecially bad on weekends when we'd go to wasserkuer, an aviation center on to a high mountain, where you could watch gliders take off, vi the museum, watch folks with their radio controlled airlanes, hang out with the hang gliders, or ride down the side of the mountain in a shiny silver bobsled that went like a rocket (loved that thing<g>). trying to get u the mountain on an early sunday morning was a major fustration as there would literally be 100's of these **** traubies, utzing u the stee grades of the mountain at about 30mh tos.....clogging u the roadways for miles. they were break down often and without warning so that by sunday evening the west german landscae was littered with trabies who didn't have the gumtion to make their way back home....
at the ghastof i was living at there was an east german gentleman staying there that was working with us and he would drive his traubie from home to the ghastof for the work week. every morning during the week he would get u early and when i came out to jum in the bmw he would be busily mixing his oil and gas together to dum in the truabie, just like a freakin' chain saw, so he could get to work another day. i offered to give him a ride in the bmw on several occasions but he would always decline the offer. i think maybe he thought i was gonna eat him or something......dunno....very quiet man. but the thing that i thought was the coolest thing was on his traubie he had hand machined sinner hubcas, just like from the 50's. he'd made them himself and he was roud of his traubie hot rod.......i've got ics of it somewhere in my files.....i should see if i can find 'em after 20 years.
sure wish that job had anned out......dunno what all that's got to do with the thread's theme, but that was a very cool time in my life and i'd rather think about them days then deal with the **** storm that's coming......
tc
****, i just realized it ain't friday. <sigh>
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