Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V10 #60
From: "Jason Hall" <JASON@jbhall.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:15:22 +0100

> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DonjR43198@aol.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 9:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] A most daring proposition.
>
>
> > In a message dated 8/1/99 6:33:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > aghalide@panix.com writes:
> >
> What would you rather drive every day, a 1960's vintage Rolls Royce, or a
> new Mercedes? If you actually prefer the Rolls, you're nuts, the new car
is
> better in every way (nostalgia aside). If you'd like to be rid of your
> "impure" M6, I'll gladly take it off your hands...
> Isaac

You're not comparing like with like, but I'd take the 60's Merc over a
modern one any day, faults and all.  Keep the high tech, clinical modern
rubbish, its got no soul, no character.  I had a Japanese sports motorbike,
v fast v efficient and I've got an old British bike, that struggles at half
the speed with brakes that don't work, and an engine that needs rebuilding
every thousand miles, the Jap bike was boring, point and go, the brit bike
takes me to a different level, I can't help grinning when I ride it, the
engineering is crude by todays standards but I love it, it even smells good.
If you are bloody minded enough to stick with it, getting there is all the
more rewarding.

Its not just about what is technically better.

There aren't many skilled craftsmen left who can take a part and make it
fit, it's all mundane assembly of CNC produced parts these days.  That takes
away job satisfaction, then your quality goes out of the window.

Incidentally, Aston Martin still shape their cars with wooden hammers.

Jason