List,
I put about $3,500 into the mechanicals on this
thing less than 3,000 miles ago. Then the transmission
disintigrated, and it sat for 4 months before I
started it again. Now it runs roughly
( bad gas? stuck float in carb? )
I found another tranny for $100 but have decided to
let the truck go because I have 3 others and don't
move many pianos anymore. $1,500, obo. Atlanta area.
Has:
Rebuilt NAPA engine, bored to about 300CI. L-6
New: Heater motor and core, wiper motor, steering
column, steering box, radiator, all new front end
everything ( ZERO slop in steering! ) exhaust system,
alternator, electric winch., etc.. A good project for
someone who wants a picturesque vehicle that can load
pianos ( uprights ) solo. Detacheable rack for grands.
$1,500 obo.
G Stelter
(770) 725-5949
--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> David Love wrote:
>
> >The cork line was a joke referring to the wine
> analogy, not meant to be
> >taken literally or personally. There is applicable
> science to this area
> >which ought to be employed whenever possible. The
> variables that effect
> >people's preference for new or old cannot easily be
> isolated, and that
> >includes a psychological factor.
> >
> >
> >
>
> I took it as a joke, but also saw the moment of
> levity in it as well.
> I'm all for using whatever tools, including any
> applicable science, in
> aiding one to build-design-whatever a piano, but not
> at the expense of
> allowing the musical ear to determine for itself
> what it likes or
> doesnt. To much of our industry today already seems
> willing to accept
> that if <<the machine>> says its no good... then its
> no good. This
> whether the case be tuning, scale design, soundboard
> construction
> approach, action functions, whathaveyou. Granted
> tho.. psychology comes
> into it quite a bit... some times uncomfortably so.
> For that matter
> marketing, myths, magic and mystism... and I can go
> a long way down that
> road many take in raising a skeptical eyebrow
> towards all that. But
> that said, one needs to be, IMHO, just as on guard
> against the same kind
> of thing in reverse. I have heard some pretty
> fantastic claims made in
> the name of science in my time here.
>
> Anyways... as long as we strive to keep seperate the
> realm of the
> subjective from that world which is made up of facts
> and figures, and do
> not try to justify one or another standpoint by
> inapproapriately mixing
> these particular P's and Q's... we leave the field
> open for all tastes,
> and clear for understandable explanations of why
> each of us do what we
> do without danger of these coming in conflict with
> one another.
>
> What can I say... different strokes... not better or
> worse just
> different. The only better or worse bit comes in
> when you dont
> accomplish what you set out to do in the first
> place.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
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