Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] My new car, a Morgan
From: ken at iisaka.org (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Sat Feb 2 21:20:35 2008
References: <889705.18341.qm@web55901.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <C3CAB3B3.88C73%mark@rabinergroup.com>

How's that different from the air/oil-cooled 911s all the way up to the
993s?  To me, the water-cooled 996/7 are the M8...


On 2/2/08, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
> > I've always wanted a Morgan, or a Caterham.
> > It's interesting to hear the guy talk about it as an
> > artifact- he describes it in the same way a lot of
> > people here would talk about film M's.
> >
> >
> > --- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> >
> I feel a tie in between the Morgan thing and the Leica thing.
>
> Turns out the next outing the Leica historical society of England is up to
> is touring the Morgan factory.
>
> Its kind of the same thing. A design concept as close to possible perfect
> at
> its outset tweaked, not changed radically over the years to perfection.
> Or changed as little as non humanly possible.
> I know relatively little about cars but that's what it seems to me.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche) ([Leica] My new car, a Morgan)
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