Re: [Leica] V35 and British Sports Cars

["Noel H. Charchuk" <nhcharch@calcna.ab.ca>]

Marc, you better assure him you are old enough to remember the sports cars
he mentions, and that you do own one, so you should be used to
cantankerous equipment by now, making the experience with the V35
especially frustrasting ;)

Noel Charchuk
Calgary, Alberta

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Stephen Kobrin wrote:

> 
> >Hatred?  Yes, I have hatred of this V35.  I shouldn't, perhaps, but I   
> >have,
> >in 48 years, never seen such a cantankerous piece of machinery.  Leica   
> >must
> >have studied British sports cars to produce something as unreliable and
> >uninspiring as is this thing!
> 
> >Marc
> 
> Slander the V35 and anything else you want to Marc, but leave British
> sports cars out of it.  If you were a little older and wiser you would
> remember the MG TD, Jag XK 120 and various Morgans which were everything a
> sports car should be. (That is, when you could get them started!!)   I
> owned a TD and its cantankerousness was part of its charm.  Besides, it
> came with a crank if everything else failed.  If you want to drive a
> Corvette with electric windows that's fine, but leave real sports cars
> alone.  Besides if you cannot work a V35 you probably should not even try a
> TD or a Morgan :)
> 
> Steve
> 
>