<VV> 12,000th archive post and some pretty funny searches...

[Tony Underwood]

At 08:37 hours 05/15/2005, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote:
>It's ten now - or 11?
>
>Cheers
>
>Alan


It's expected to be 12 or more by now.


Sometimes a search through an archive can take some serious time if the 
archive is relatively large, like ~50 meg or so... depending on the 
computer.  If you're using an antique laptop with a 300 mhz processor it 
can get tacky.   The desktop is much quicker...  but sometimes not 
accessible so I'm stuck with the laptop.

I needed to search through a pile of messages to find something on a long 
since deceased aftermarket supplier not long ago, took a while, thought the 
damned thing had locked up.   I fondly remember the days of EICO, EMPI, 
EELCO, Cal-Custom, among others for all  those great (sometimes) 
aftermarket accessories that now are only seen at swap meets if you're 
lucky.   And sex had nothing to do with any of them unless it was in ads 
used to sell the stuff.    JC Whitless also carried a lot of Vair stuff, 
some of it rather decent.   The '67 coupe is wearing a JCW dual exhaust 
system picked up at Carlisle, NOS... for 20 bucks.


tony..      has a near-perfect condition EICO catalog along with a nice 
"chromed" EICO quarter window sticker attached inside.