30 Oct
2003
30 Oct
'03
8:15 a.m.
Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
Then maybe their websites shouldn't say "Email me here if you want to be a
dealer! We'll get right back with you!" Or even just email me back saying
"Holy Scheisse! We're not ready to have a US Dealer!" Or even...
"There's
no dealer discount or anything, and I only make 2 per week..." or
whatever... The lack of response is what I was upset about.
If their website said: "Email us and we'll never answer you back because
this is just a *#!%^~(@ hobby for us, but we wanted to put out a webpage"
--> that would have been just fine, then. ;-)
Then things sure have changed from when I was there... I drove from Oerbke
(I think that's the spelling... it's been a while since '91... 12-year
brainfog) - 50km north of Hannover, anyway - I was driving an American
Military vehicle (CUCV -> Chevy Blazer for those who've seen one) 130kph up
to Bremerhaven (with oversized balloon tires only designed to withstand
72kph - it was *bouncy*!!) and rarely did those little, dinky,
currently-domestic Porches & Mercedes drop below 170kph, even in the
construction zones! Some of them zipped past me near cm away - that was a
rather hectic ride!
The bus trip I took to Berlin was similarly unencumbered by traffic, until
we got into the city proper (which still isn't as bad on the stretch of
Interstate 75 between Bay City & Detroit, MI, at least IMHO... imagine 30km
of 25kph travel out of 100km, if you catch it the wrong time...)
And you had *no* witty comeback about the beer... ;-) ;-)
To bring this back ontopic... I'm *still* trying to work out getting over
to VCF Europa... we'll see...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
P.S. I don't have a Deutschland map handy... how far away is Munich from
Garmish?
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein
zmerch(a)30below.com |
Wow. If I look around here in the greater Munich area,
i'd be happy
to have some 1-2% of the total classic comp population ... we have :)
So would I... ;-)
[snip re:
Medusa/Hades/Milan/etc]
THey are often not ready for that. Most of them are rather small
Companies, or in most cases single person, not realy ready for
business, and rather driven by the idea. And in the
more populous areas where pickin's are easier... we still have
more crime, slow autobahns, and *really* *bad* *beer*.
No, that's not true, you may have some slow highways, but slow
Autobahns are limited to Germany - where basicly _every_ Autobahn
is so crowded that a parking lot gives you a better driving
experience. If you'll do an average over all Autobahns and
US Interstates, the Interstate system will come out first.
At least when counting cars per kilometer.