Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually Henning, it would be a 480 or, more precisely, 479 as the displacement is 5748. I presume fuel mileage will not match my STS-V which averaged just under 21 mpg on yesterday's 360 mile round trip to Spring Valley and Allendale (Leica North America) at a steady 73-75 with occasional sprints to 100+ for right lane passes of dangerous jackasses peddling along in the passing lane at 68 and holding up a whole line of aggravated drivers. Them is the kind that create road rage. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] HCBilia - now HCB would have approved > Well..... > > A new M8.2 and a Maranello!! Clearly things are going well. Just > don't work too many hours so that you don't have time for the toys. > > The 575 is a wonderful car; the only thing wrong with it is that it > should have been called a 475 to be in line with their traditional > naming scheme. And, I guess, that it doesn't get great mileage (I'm > sure that's your major concern too!). > > Have fun! Oh, and take some pictures of the car with you know what! > > > At 7:25 AM -0500 2/10/09, Seth Rosner wrote: >>Alastair, when I was in Paris a century ago, I was a suitable bread >>stick carrier though I used to slog straight through the puddles on >>the rue St Andre des Arts where I lived. >> >>May as well begin the day confessing to all my friends on this list >>that yesterday I succumbed, burdened my future, both temporal and >>fiscal, and acquired a panda-destined black paint M8.2; no, I'm not >>going to fret that my 35mm and 50mm optics are silver (the 90/2,8 >>Elmarit and 25/4 C/R Skopar are black). Probably will need a new >>21/3,8 Elmar as w/a. Forgot to get an extra battery and memory cards >>- almost don't know what to ask for in which store!! I'm in a >>particularly busy time in my law practice, have been engaged as, in >>effect, a quasi-judge to render a binding decision on a legal ethics >>issue in a substantial commercial litigation. Thursday morning I'm >>off to Boston for the Amer Bar Assoc midyear meeting, away till next >>Wed. Lucky if I begin to understand this device by March. >> >>As Frank Dernie, Henning, Tom A., and several others on the list >>know, in addition to my almost life-long affliction as a Leicaholic >>image-maker, I'm also a car nut. Yesterday, the sports car market >>having collapsed at least as dramatically as have the Leica, >>Hasselblad, world equity markets and economies, and being no longer >>obliged to run financial decisions past SWMBO, I lost my [alleged] >>mind and also acquired a new (actually 'pre-owned') Ferrari, a 575M >>Maranello. In fact, the private seller and I closed on the >>transaction last Thursday late afternoon, the car was collected >>Friday in Virginia Beach by transport company and delivered Saturday >>to the Ferrari dealer in Spring Valley NY where I went yesterday for >>my first visit. Perhaps the best road car that Ferrari has ever made >>at a jaw-droppingly low price (you know, one can buy a pre-owned >>8-cylinder Ferrari in excellent condition in the US$20-30,000. >>range). >> >>As of tomorrow I'll be unsubscribed for at least a week. Will miss >>you all. Don't take any wooden nickels. >> >>Seth > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1942 - Release Date: 02/09/09 17:40:00