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Old Aug 4, 2001 | 10:56 PM
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While looking at a GM parts book from 73 I am amazed at the prices of the parts! CHEAP... I would order 500 5-port warsher pumps for my 70 and a pair of metallic green door panels!!! Dream on. TNT -----Thad LeJeune
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Old Aug 4, 2001 | 10:57 PM
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IF !!!!!
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Old Aug 4, 2001 | 11:05 PM
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. And I was pumping gas when it was $.29

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Old Aug 5, 2001 | 12:01 AM
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Yeah, Don, don't I know I would load up on Intel, Dell, and Cisco stock when issued. :yesnod:
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Old Aug 5, 2001 | 12:08 AM
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AAAHHHH Chucky. Didn't any one ever tell you Money Don't buy happiness....But the toys it buy's, sure do
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Old Aug 5, 2001 | 01:23 AM
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I know what you guys mean. I used to do business with Michael Dell when he was running a store front in Austin and selling Taiwanese clones under the PC's Limited brand name. He offered my buddy and I a chance to distribute his computer's in our town, but he was such an arrogant young $h!t that we blew him off as a flash in the pan. We aligned ourselves with Compu-Ad. What dumba$$es we were. Does anyone even remember Compu-Ad.
Well 15 years later I'm still working my day job and my buddy is comptroller for an oil company (glorified accountant.)
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Old Aug 5, 2001 | 02:01 AM
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Compu-Ad, I remember them well. I was selling AST and put a bid, Compu-Ad was selling direct and......... I lost the bid. :mad
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Old Aug 5, 2001 | 03:38 PM
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I bought a Compu-Ad '286, 20MB hard disk, 1 MB DRAM, Monitor and 80 column printer back in 1987 for about $2200. What a screamer back then!
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I was pumping Ethyl when she was only $20 What the hell lets have some fun here it is getting very SLOW
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You would buy parts? I would buy cars at '73 prices and part them out :D :D :D
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