Thread: Leaving,But not without a fight ???

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Gee, this is like "deja vu all over again". I swear that "things" have individual "personalities". Too many times in my life, I have had this scenario play out, one way or the other: I had a '57 Chevy that gave me nothing but trouble, and I finally unloaded it for cheap to a young Marine who wanted that car and swore he would make it work, come he** or high water. He rotated to Pendleton, and a couple of years later, he was back in "The Stumps", Chevy and all. When I finally got to talk to him, he said he loved that car, it had never let him down or given him a minutes trouble. Go figure.

Haha, I bought a car like that one time. The guy had nothing but trouble with it, replaced almost every part on the car to keep it alive. I bought it and never had a lick of problems. Everytime I would see him he would say "You're kidding me, the car is still running ok??" I guess he replaced the last bad part just before I got it.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Haha, I bought a car like that one time. The guy had nothing but trouble with it, replaced almost every part on the car to keep it alive. I bought it and never had a lick of problems. Everytime I would see him he would say "You're kidding me, the car is still running ok??" I guess he replaced the last bad part just before I got it.

Don

Sigh.
In my case I was the guy that replaced all the knobby bits.
We had a four-wheeled farm bike that I bought at a clearing sale; it gave me nothing but trouble.
After twelve months of seemingly working on the damned thing before being able to use it, I got so fed up with it I gave it to a mate to use for spare parts.
He kept it nearly ten years, used it regularly, and never laid a spanner on it.
Sigh.