Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] dealer turnoffs
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:34:34 -0500

At 02:24 PM 11/12/1999 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote:
>The Hawkins story may or may not be an Urban Legend, because it sounds
>strangely like the story that had Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane
>snubbed at an RR dealership in the Bay Area - so she is alleged to have
>returned with PENNIES to buy the car for cash...either way, it's a wonderful
>image....

In the US, cents are not "legal tender", so the dealer could have refused
to accept them and could have insisted on, at the least, 5-cent pieces.

Marc

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