Introduction Forum 51

[admin]

This forum has been introduced for the discussion of your non-Rickenbacker instruments. I hope that this forum will make it easier to find guitar and bass discussions that may get lost in the extensive number of posts under The Others.

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

What a great idea! And judging by the backlog of posts, we've been needing this one for a long time. Thanks again, Peter.

[beatlefreak]

This forum has been introduced for the discussion of your non-Rickenbacker instruments.

There are other instruments besides Rickenbacker?

[rictified]

I tried to open this last night and couldn't get in, must have still been working on it?

[fatcat]

There are other instruments besides Rickenbacker?

Just like there are other cars besides Mercedes

[elysrand]

Well of course there are. There are Porsche cars too...

[jps]

...and Ferraris.

[gibsonlp]

Actually I never knew there are other cars than Porsche
(Well, only my Audi, but that's because I live in Israel and when a plain 911 costs $250,000 you can't really have anything more than an Audi )

[elysrand]

...and Ferraris.

The problem with Ferraris is that you can't drive them. Tuneups cost $2000 each, they need one every month, it takes 29 days for the mechanic to finish, you drive it home and then it won't start the next morning and you need to have it towed right back to the mechanic, who will spend another 29 days fixing it and doing a tuneup, then you drive it home, it won't start the next morning...... happened to me five times in six months, so I sold it

[elysrand]

Actually I never knew there are other cars than Porsche
(Well, only my Audi, but that's because I live in Israel and when a plain 911 costs $250,000 you can't really have anything more than an Audi )

Well, since they were "Porsche-Audi" for so long, and made cars like the 924 by putting an Audi truck engine into a Porsche-designed body, I guess having an Audi counts as having a Porsche!

My baby-blue 911 is by no means new, but I love it.

[sowhat]

There is Zaporozhets as well... some say it's not a car, but still.

[gibsonlp]

Actually I never knew there are other cars than Porsche
(Well, only my Audi, but that's because I live in Israel and when a plain 911 costs $250,000 you can't really have anything more than an Audi )

Well, since they were "Porsche-Audi" for so long, and made cars like the 924 by putting an Audi truck engine into a Porsche-designed body, I guess having an Audi counts as having a Porsche!

My baby-blue 911 is by no means new, but I love it.

Porsche actually own the majority of the stocks for VAG, so I guess that in a way - I am driving a Porsche
(Who the hell am I kidding...)

[elysrand]

There is Zaporozhets as well... some say it's not a car, but still.

Never drove a Zaporozhets, but I did drive a Lada once in Berlin, many years ago. It ran just fine, a little noisy though, and very slow going uphill.

Then the chain broke....

We had to take a taxi back to the hotel

[sowhat]

Zaporozhets is the most silent car in the world. When you're in and driving, you don't hear anything cause your knees protect your ears from all sounds.
My Dad drove Ladas (Zhiguli) for around 30 years. That's a good car, imho, if we don't take into account that it requires much more money for reparation than its actual cost. Oh, and i remember there was a moment when the chain broke in the road (i still was in school back then), too, and we had to take taxi to go to our country house & then ask our neighbour to help us tow it there. The whole reparation process took around 2 months. And earlier on, when i was about 4 or 5 years old, we've lost one of the wheels on another Zhiguli in the middle of the road. That was quite funny — luckily, nobody suffered (apart from the car, of course).
But now my Dad has a Chevy made in Korea. He's not such a big fan of Zhiguli, as it turned out.

[jps]

Elys, what model and year Ferrari did you have?