From: djslager (djslager@icongrp.com)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 18:58:04 PST
Well dave, you are right on,all it is --is more green money and more green
trucks!!!!!!Thats just the way it is. I LOVE IT TOO !!!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: [MV] YOU ALL ARE A BUNCH OF SICK PEOPLE
>
> Something I have noticed of late on this list is the commenting being done
> on the value of the vehicles we collect. I have to laugh because anyone
> demented enough to think that the Military Vehicle collection hobby is a
way
> to getting rich or turning a profit is either sniffing thinner or is an
> uninfected dealer who has no interest in operating or restoring vehicles
and
> is interested only in selling us "collectors" surplus parts and vehicles
at
> a very good profit.
> You see if you Own, Operate and restore military vehicles the value of
your
> equipment is only what some other infected collector will pay and if you
> have been reading closely most of us are cheap penny pinchers who when a
> friend comes over we drag out some green part we paid too much for and
> proceed to explain what a great deal we got leaving out the parts about
how
> we have no practical use for it (spare) and that the person we bought it
> from was very happy to be out from under it.
> Value.... you know what value is? Value is in knowing we are all the same
> and all sick with the same disease and not getting any better and that the
> symptoms are getting easier to live with now that we all have this support
> group (mvm list) and are working on our problems together.
>
> I love this hobby and I for one don't care if I ever get my money
back.....
>
> Also I love your trucks as much as mine I just can't say it to your
face....
>
>
> Dave
>
> The Value of any honest hobby that is undertaken and enjoyed is not that
> which you can put in your purse but that which brings you happiness when
> your purse is empty and the day is done.
>
> Dave Ball
>
>
>
>
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