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Re: "Project Drift"

To: EMPcoLWE@aol.com
Subject: Re: "Project Drift"
From: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:18:54 -0700

It's also known as "opening a can of worms".

:)

- Tab



At 04:45 PM 6/12/00 -0400, EMPcoLWE@aol.com wrote:
>Hello List
>     I'm in the middle of stripping the paint off my MGA. It didn't start out
>that way, but one thing lead to another, and...
>     That's one question I have. My Step father calls this tendency "project
>drift" and I was wondering if others have different names for it. The amazing
>ability for seemingly insignificant projects to grow and multiply, becoming
>greater and more time and money consuming than one would have imagined. I'm
>also curious to hear the tales of woe as how this "project drift" started and
>finished. Maybe I should at last start a web page and I could post these
>tales. (Uh oh, is this project drift in action? )
>
>     Other than that, I am taking the windshield frame apart and remember
>reading somewhere that the kit sold by moss might not have the correct
>threads in the assembly package. This could be my memory working against me,
>and I don't want to post this as fact, 'cause it may not be. That would be
>part number 323-958, I gather, looking at the Moss catalogue.
>     Hmm. Maybe someone should sell an entire windshield rebuild kit. Mine
>needs everything, including chrome.
>
>Is it just me, or do those new VW beetles look like speed bumps from the side?
>
>
>Eric Peterson
>59 MGA
>70 MGB
>65 V.W. Panel Van
>86 Isuzu whatever.


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