Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 30/8/00 1:33 pm, Steve LeHuray at icommag@toad.net wrote: >> BTW the Corolla is kind of like a Leica, in that no-one looks at it twice >> despite the fact that it does everything any sane person could require of a >> car driven on public roads in an urban environment! > > > Replying to Johnny: > > Waay Kool man! I hope it is a Stealth Corolla fitted out with Dr Blacktapes > Special Younge Street cruising Leicas mounted in the wheel wells and zone > focused for the Bloor Street intersection Zone focusing PAH! Nothing automatic about this bad boy! It's the all-manual Toyata Historical Society of America corolla in vintage-style shit brown paint! Nevertheless I have blacktaped the fabled Toyata 'red dot' and installed a big ol' chevvy V8 with glasspack muffler. This thing will do 90 clicks in FIRST, I'm telling you. I fill the tank with Xtol 1:3, invert twice, then drop the pedal to the metal, take a moment to check the DOF on the ground glass windshield with a linen tester, pop the clutch and HOOOO BAYYBEEYn you should see the expression on the faces of the guys in their big ol' Porsche EOS 1's and Ferrari N90's when my shit-colored corolla streaks away from them at the lights, pink ticket in hand, still critically focussed despite the red shift. At that moment, CLICK! I have my picture, and my work is done. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com