Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: GT40
From: "charles walden" <charlie@highhill.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:25:34 -0400
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJMEOCAEAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com> <200205241859.g4OIxxQ07432@panix2.panix.com> <od5teuojnqd4i8ejjjtm2ha6hnj8f7tlgg@4ax.com>

glad to see another 540i user - it's the only other mechanical device I
enjoy as much as my m3 on a daily basis.

charlie

(I guess that remark was off topic to the GT40, but at least I worked leica
in there ;)
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From: "Paul Chefurka" <paul@chefurka.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: GT40


> This is a crowd with exceptionally good taste (as if that was ever in
> doubt).  The GT40 and the Miura are the pinnacle of hot-car designs as far
> as I'm concerned too.  I was in Paris in '67, and was exposed to all the
> GT40/Le Mans publicity.  I remember seeing a Miura there once and thinking
> that this was about as close to perfect as a car could get.  Those two
> designs had serious soul.
>
> Like Adam  I wouldn't trade my 540i for either as a daily driver, but they
> are definitely the stuff that dreams are made of.
>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2002 14:59:59 -0400 (EDT), "Rei Shinozuka"
<shino@panix.com>
> wrote:
>
> >we think alike, my friend.
> >
> >i've always thought the miura was
> >one of the best-looking of the breed, and far nicer than countach
> >and the space-age transformers-type cars which followed.
> >
> >-rei
> >
> >> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> >>
> >> > There hasn't been a mid-engine sports car whose form is more
> >> > pleasing to me that
> >> > the GT40.
> >>
> >> Adam,
> >>
> >> The Lamborghini Miura is very close IMO...
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Austin
> >
> >--
> >Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> >Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
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Replies: Reply from Paul Chefurka <paul@chefurka.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: GT40)
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Message from "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: GT40)
Message from Paul Chefurka <paul@chefurka.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: GT40)