Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>(as an aside, when my partners old company was building villages in the >Sakha Republic in arctic Russia, they would buy brand new Ladas for the >construction work. First thing the engineers did was take them completely to >bits and put them, together properly) Yes, and when the job was finished ... those were probably the ones that got exported :) When the world opened up in the ninties, the Russians were pretty keen on buying up any Lada they could find here in Sweden. They knew that the exported ones held a higher standard than the domestic ones. We'd even find notes on our windshield when we left it on a parking lot: Sell to me, sell to me! By the way, Sonny ... you did have your priorities right :) Daniel - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html