Be prepared to flip out!!!

[johnallg]

All my Ampegs weigh 20.7 MB's

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Sure glad I wasn't sipping anything when I read this!

[jps]

Well that's too bad. I mean...Nothing against Asian products, but when well known American or European brands move production away from the US or Europe in search of the cheapest possible labor I stop buying said product.

One interesting exception to this is the Ashdown factory in Kentucky to make amps.

[cheyenne]

HEY GUYS! HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, but what exactly is this topic about?

I really want to add some >xi!!!v#&@ comments but out of respect for Peter and his fine forum I will not.

Maybe the Ampeg debate needs its own topic?

[shamustwin]

I saw a Ford Granada on the freeway yesterday.

[cheyenne]

Sorry people.

Just a little stressed today. The economy has me down.

I keep looking to this topic for some good news from RIC.

But as usual, they like to play the game.

Oh well..............

[jps]

Maybe the Ampeg debate needs its own topic?

It already does have it's own topic, right here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=385951&st=0&sk=t&sd ... ampeg+news

[rickenbrother]

Maybe the Ampeg debate needs its own topic?

It already does have it's own topic, right here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=385951&st=0&sk=t&sd ... ampeg+news

Okay, so then let's discuss Ampeg amps in the thread that was started about Ampeg amps.

[scottpro1969]

I saw a Ford Granada on the freeway yesterday.

LOL. I owned a Ford Granada back in '86!! I actually liked that car

[aceonbass]

I just finished replacing the stock Eminence B102's in my Ampeg HLF410 with 4 Eminence Delta-Lite neodymium speakers. The cab is now rated at 1000 watts program and 2000 peak at 2 ohms. Not that I needed THAT much power capacity, but the speakers were priced right and weigh a lot less.

[jingle_jangle]

Har. I remember when my father bought a '78 Granada from the local Ford dealer...we both had been GM guys for a long time--him since birth, I think. But a friend of his talked him into trading his gorgeous, mint '63 Cad Coupe de Ville on that monstrosity. Bright Green Metallic with a white vinyl roof, green rugs and white vinyl trim. They musta seen him coming. It lasted about 2 years and lunched the tranny. He went back to GM, but it was too late...GM was past the peak of the curve and it's been junque since

I think that Granada and its contemporary--the Fairmont--were the only cars designed without any curves. Truly awful.

[aceonbass]

, . He went back to GM, but it was too late...GM was past the peak of the curve and it's been junque since

Them's fightin' words Paulie! I think the bad GM/QC issue is an urban myth any more. My '94 Grand Prix has over 240,000 miles on it. My '91 Trans am had over 160,000 when I sold it ( I was beating new T/A's in '96 with it.) My Trans Sport mini van had over 160,000 when I sold it(wish I still had it..hey don't laugh, it got great mileage and could carry EVERY piece of gear I have.) I could tell more such stories, but the point is a car will last as long as you take care of it....unless of course it's a '78 Granada

[cheyenne]

Heh....Inside joke.

"People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones."

[cjj]

Hey I know, maybe RIC is going to start making amps again...






There, does that tie in the amp debate and get us back on topic?

[weemac]

Heh....Inside joke.

"People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones."

Or is that "People in glass houses shouldn't get stoned!"

Eden.

[jingle_jangle]

, . He went back to GM, but it was too late...GM was past the peak of the curve and it's been junque since

Them's fightin' words Paulie! I think the bad GM/QC issue is an urban myth any more. My '94 Grand Prix has over 240,000 miles on it. My '91 Trans am had over 160,000 when I sold it ( I was beating new T/A's in '96 with it.) My Trans Sport mini van had over 160,000 when I sold it(wish I still had it..hey don't laugh, it got great mileage and could carry EVERY piece of gear I have.) I could tell more such stories, but the point is a car will last as long as you take care of it....unless of course it's a '78 Granada

Sorry, Dane...I should have clarified my statement.

Ahem, "junque capable of high odometer readings in the hands of a rare, car-sensitive owner."

Dane, I have owned more GM cars than any others. I count among my good friends and customers a former VP of GM, and spent a number of exciting days at the GM Styling Center researching projects in their incredible car library. I loved my SAABs, too, until GM bought a big interest and "re-engineered" them to ****, too. They simply jumped the shark, oh, around 1966, and except for a few bright spots, haven't recovered yet, faithful owners like yourself notwithstanding.

I often wonder where the whole transportation biz would be if car manufacturers had used common sense (instead of rape-the-public-and-planet profiteering) post-WWII, when the choice could have been to make practical, well-engineered and realistically-packaged cars. Instead, we got the '48 Buick and its ilk. True, imagination did give us some memorable vehicles in the '50s and early '60s, but the good old days wouldn't be past if they'd taken the other road.

Reminds me of the NASA dilemma when the moon frenzy was over and they were looking at their programs anew. The choice: "BDR" (big, dumb rockets--the cheapest, most efficient way of getting payloads into space) or the road they did take--the abysmal space shuttle, which expends more PR money keeping the public thinking it's "efficient" (it's not, and never was--it was just a way to enlarge their turf and justify huge budgets and lots of jobs) than the entire BDR program would have cost.

This sort of grandiosity and protective obfuscation works in the States, but to other cultures, we look like cowboys.

Oh, wait...anyway, what was this thread about?

Yee-HAH!!!