Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] would it worth for an M3
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:39:39 -0500
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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
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> 
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