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Re: Australia (what I did on my summer vacation )

To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
Subject: Re: Australia (what I did on my summer vacation )
From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:31:39 -0800
Yep, when you get off the plane in Oz just set your watch back 50 years 
and you will have no worries. Its just like the states was in the 50's, 
before the lawyers and ACLU and politically correct screwed us up. I'm 
so old I can remember when a hand shake on a deal was binding and gas 
stations were called service stations with people that spoke english.
Doug Odom in big ditch

Keith Turk wrote:

>First and foremost... if you want to go back in time... when things were
>simple and life was easier... a trip to Lake Gairdner is an absolute MUST....
>
>I have lived in several countries throughout the world... this is the first
>one that I've even considered "Like" the US... I could live there with No
>Problem at all....  every person I met was nice... easy to get along with and
>supportive.
>
>Racing there is a true throw back to simpler times... The folks don't pitch
>money at things... they use their god given skills and talents to make things
>happen....  I met two folks who cast pistons for their own stuff.... bike guys
>... but racers all the same...
>
>The skills and talents of these guys ranks right up there with our guys...
>only they don't have instant access to things like we do so they make
>stuff.... often it looks like it... but who cares it works.... "No Worries" as
>they would say... or No Drama...   Every once in a while I'd stumble into a
>pit that had stuff that any of us would be proud to own.... Extremely nice
>execution and workmanship weren't common place... but it was there....
>
>OH and someone forgot to mention that 4 doors weren't race cars... these guys
>are ate up with them.... virtually half the cars had toooo many doors.... but
>they were still very cool.
>
>Keith




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