Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great!:-) James Mason, Arctic Sounder wrote: > There is no way to put a Yugo engine in a VW...so let's think up a > different analogy. I spent three years during the war in Bosnia in a > mountain town where we had to make do...lots of welding and lots of > machining, and most of the cars were either Yugos or VW Golfs. The idea > of mixing Yugo and VW parts would not occur to anybody who has worked > with the cars...they don't fit. > > On the other hand, an M6 viewfinder will go into an M3. An analogy might > be putting a corvair engine into your old VW bus...or a Porsche engine > in your bus...which used to be done a lot back in the 60s. Or a Chevy V8 > into your toyota Landcruiser...those all fit. > > OK? > > James Mason > > > > > >> Just the opposite - the apparently bad analogy stems from the fact >> that the VW was solid and reliable, and the Yugo was just the opposite >> - hence putting a Yugo engine into a VW. I am suggesting that the M6 >> finder is the Yugo engine, and putting one into an M3, with its >> wonderful, bright, flare-free, easy to focus viewfinder/rangefinder >> would make less than no sense. >> >> B. D. >> >> SthRosner@aol.com wrote: >> >>> In a message dated 11/29/01 8:45:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, >>> JRFjr@compuserve.com writes: >>> >>>> Maybe the analogy is putting a Chevy engine in a Mercedes? >>>> >>> >>> I believe the analogy stemmed from the fact that this M3 was a less >>> than perfect specimen. Perhaps what was meant was a VW engine in a >>> badly beat-up Mercedes? >>> >>> Seth LaK 9 >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >>> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html