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Old 07 September 2007, 10:48   #21
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....it's always best to buy into the end run of a technology than the start of a new one!!!
Well, maybe. When the Ford car plant closed at Liverpool, I had a pal who worked there in the gearbox assembly workshop. He reckoned you'd be fool to buy any of the last cars built cos they used all the leftover scrap to complete them.
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Old 07 September 2007, 18:55   #22
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Well, maybe. When the Ford car plant closed at Liverpool, I had a pal who worked there in the gearbox assembly workshop. He reckoned you'd be fool to buy any of the last cars built cos they used all the leftover scrap to complete them.
Don't say that JW ......My DI Evinrude is one of the last ones made before they swaped over to E-Tecs
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Don't say that JW ......My DI Evinrude is one of the last ones made before they swaped over to E-Tecs
The point I was making is that when something is coming to the end of production all the gremlins have been ironed out - with a brand new product it's often the customers who are the guinea pigs!!!
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Yes, I think we understood.
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Yes, I think we understood.
What your mate probably didn't explain was that the bits left over were the ones "saved" by the workers and the last cars off the line were going towards the leaving party!!!
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