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plateaucal wrote:Yah, they were epic until the accountants took over.
Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus. Usually it is the marketing and engineering teams that specify changes. Customer resistance to the retail price for improvements dictate compromise.
Keith
zed wrote:Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus.
... says the Accountant
Sorry Keith, jus teasin....
L-R:
White 65 Hardtop L60-3-00617 (undergoing restoration)
Red 65 hardtop 4L60-002565 (scrapped for parts)
66 Hardtop "El-Bondo Patrol", L60-00511 (Restored, then sold June2020)
Blue 67 Hardtop (sold March1997)
Green 62 Softtop L60-2-00504 (undergoing restoration)
plateaucal wrote:Yah, they were epic until the accountants took over.
Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus. Usually it is the marketing and engineering teams that specify changes. Customer resistance to the retail price for improvements dictate compromise.
Keith
Bbbbbut I am an engineer. I am now hurt beyond measure. Okay I am done crying now. I would argue that these changes were commensurate with the evolution in technology and were sensible. Things like alternators...how dare they. But, this is why the old stuff is always more cool.
zed wrote:
Like the time a guy had to strip a red wheel that was recently painted
Hey, I know that guy.... He's crazy.
At least the red wheel showed up in a box on his doorstep... That silly fool drove all the way to Devore California and back, to pick up the other 4 wheels to go along with the red one...
He's nuts
L-R:
White 65 Hardtop L60-3-00617 (undergoing restoration)
Red 65 hardtop 4L60-002565 (scrapped for parts)
66 Hardtop "El-Bondo Patrol", L60-00511 (Restored, then sold June2020)
Blue 67 Hardtop (sold March1997)
Green 62 Softtop L60-2-00504 (undergoing restoration)