[rescue] Workers of the World, Unite!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:39:39PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > I missed something.... Why do we keep seeing pictures of your car.  Is there
> > something under the hood that I'm missing?  A turbo charger?  A flux
> > capacitor in the back (I didn't really read the Big Caps thread)?
> 
> It's a 1985 car with 92,000 miles on it -- original miles, no odometer
> flip. Sure, it looks like hell, but it never gives up...

92k mi?  That's nothing.  My '87 car has over 225k mi before the
odometer broke.  My sisters (an '88) is rapidly approaching 250k mi.
 
> it's only on it's *second* alternator. (likewise the A/C compressor, but
> only because it got filled with R134 and corroded and locked the
> compressor).

I think I'm on a second alternator, but as a non-original owner, who
really knows.
 
> oh, and it did it's first jump start (as in it started another car) the
> other day. Didn't even flinch.

I thought that was to be expected of any car.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd