Would those be the "Fortune Teller" magazines?
-----Original Message-----
>Hey is this why I get the Sept issues of magazines in early Aug?
>
>Larry
>
>>>>>On 8/8/99 8:07 AM so and so (Robert Duquette) said. (And I quote:)
>
>>Hey Doug!
>>
>>I see your point, but my analogy was when things were manufactured and
>>introduced, not when the materials were available.
>>
>>In your example, 'my' car would still be a 1965 model, built in '64. Even
>>if it did use the steel that was from the 1960 stockpile.
>>
>>In your original reply to this post, you were saying that purchasing a
2000
>>model year car in 1999 isn't logical. I never did like the way they've
done
>>that. My understanding is that it was originally done as a one-upmanship
>>(is that English?) kind of thing. The companies wanted to get their
product
>>available to the consumer ahead of the competition. And so they made them
>>available a little earlier ... and it kept escalating until they really
>>couldn't go much earlier.
>>
>>If the car was built early and spent some of it's early life in shipment
to
>>the US or in storage or even if it was introduced a bit early or perhaps
it
>>didn't sell and sat on the lot beyond the model year, I think that we are
>>still correct in calling it by the model year for which it was produced.
??
>>
>>Robert D.
>>How did I get myself into this?
>>... and how do I get myself out? # ;^)>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>C'mon now Robert, you can mess with my mind better than that......
>>>
>>>So, if the iron ore that was made into the steel that your car was made
>>from
>>>was extracted from the mine in 1955, and sat in a stockpile until 1960,
is
>>>your car a 1955 or a 1960?
>>>
>>>Top that! ;)
>>>
>>>Doug Ingram
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>>>To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>>Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 3:07 PM
>>>Subject: Re: finding out more
>>>
>>>
>>>>Let me mess with your mind a bit ...
>>>>
>>>>If your child was conceived in 1999 and born in 2000, what is it then?
#
>>; ^)>
>>>>
>>>>Robert D.
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Doug Ingram <dougi@home.com>
>>>>...
>>>>>greater value. How can you go out today and buy a 2000 model year car
>>when
>>>>>it is only August 1999? If your child is born next week, are you going
to
>>>>>tell people it was born in the year 2000?
>>>>...
>>>>>
>>>>>Doug Ingram
>>>>>Victoria BC
>>>>>1958 Frogeye (April 10, 1958)
>>>>>AN5L/636
>>>>>
>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>From: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
>>>>>>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>>>>>Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:06 AM
>>>>>>Subject: Re: finding out more
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This brings up a question I had been wondering about. Do people
>>consider
>>>>>>their car's age from the date built or the date sold or originally
>>>>>>registered? My Midget was built in 1968 and sold in 1969 (vin dates it
>>>at
>>>>>>68 - registration dates it at 69)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So do I have a 1968 Midget or a 69? No big deal either way, just
>>>curious.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Robert
>>>>>>http://www.woozy.com/midget
>
>
>Larry Macy
>78 Midget
>
>Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
>Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>System Manager/Administrator
>Neuropsychiatry Section
>Department of Psychiatry
>University of Pennsylvania
>3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
>Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
>In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
>gates?
>
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