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| Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #245113 is a reply to message #245085] |
Tue, 25 March 2014 22:12   |
Bob de Kruyff
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| mickeysss wrote on Tue, 25 March 2014 18:42 |
I met von braun with bucky fuller and i ask him to write me a line for my song called unite the world. He wrote:
" hitch your wagon to a star it really works"
No matter who you are hitch your wagon to a star it really works ended up as the line he agreed on.
WHen i met him he was trying to transport a tea cup with a laser? really mickey anaheim ca. 77 palm beach,
this happened at notre dame U, kellogs hall, about 19 76 or so. he lived in german town virginia i think it was.
he sent me a letter and i stepped out of the front door of my geodesic dome in carbondale ill. I bought bucky fuller dome home when he left town to Boston and the post man handed me the letter from werner. It was a clear day but one rain drop landed on the letter. When i opened it, the water hit his signature and it was done with a magic marker and it blurred it. very strange of the odds of that happening. He was a giant and he always had his shoulders like he was trying to get off the ground.
the saturn 5 was the greatest thing i can think of invented by man. he was cheerful and he and bucky and bill lear ( lear jet) were there together with me listening to these maniacs. they had so much fun together with buz aldren and cooper and others around that flew there jets up for the afternoon to attend the top 300 inventors in the world it was the 100 year birthday of the college there. 300 doctorates that invented the nuclear sub, transistor, Dr. Weisner - increased protein wheat, Bill Lear, longest tram guy, the geodesic dome bucky had done the worlds fair in canada with a 1/4 mile dome, there were 12 of them that got honorary doctors degrees that day. I can't think of them all right now. I was the only one there because i audio recorded all of bucky's talks and i was let in to the event with robbed 300 doctors seated to watch and me. lots of moon men astronauts and inventors what a day that was. sorry if i am off topic but robM got me thinking of it. M>
On Mar 25, 2014, at 4:28 PM, mike foster wrote:
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> VonBraun and his group made sure they were 'captured' by the US forces rather than the Russians because the US was a Christian country vs atheist USSR. One thing about the USA in WW-II was we didn't go after the 'spoils of war' and take what we wanted. The Marshall Plan spent billions rebuilding Europe and MacArthur did the same in Japan.
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> As for Apollo there is a photo of an astronaut on the surface of the moon and the caption reads:
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> "I went to the moon with less computer power than your I-Phone 5 and you're complaining about slow G-4?"
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> USAussie wrote on Mon, 24 March 2014 17:55
>> Peer,
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>> I'm sure you can tell from my last name (US Immigration took out the umlaut and added the "e") that I am of German descent. I agree
>> in part with what you've note; in fact I often joke about German ingenuity and inventiveness.
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>> However, when someone from another country other than the USA brags about technical ability I ask; "When do you plan on landing on
>> the Moon?" 
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>> In my opinion Project Apollo WAS the height of "inventiveness" in my generation.
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>> Yes, I am aware that Dr. Werner Von Braun along with a number of other German scientists / engineers captured at Peenemunde played
>> important parts in the US Space program.
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>> Regards,
>> Rob Mueller.
>> Sydney, Australia
>> AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
>> USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peer Oliver Schmidt
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>> Maybe it comes from the fact that the ABS was invented by the Germans.
>> And in German the long form is Anti Blockier System. The first company,
>> according to wikipedia, that made it readily available was an American
>> company in the 60s. As always, the German invents stuff, and the
>> American perfect it and build it 
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>> Best regards
>> Peer Oliver Schmidt
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I hope it was a U-Haul hitch !
Bob de Kruyff
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| Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #245116 is a reply to message #245015] |
Tue, 25 March 2014 22:21 |
Ken Henderson
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What I want to know is where'd that subject "...kenH" come from? I ain't
said nuttin!
Ken H.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Kosier wrote:
> This is turning into another Tom Warner fiasco. That's where you take a
> ridiculous position and keep hammering on it until everyone gives up and
> quits
> posting. Then you claim righteous victory. It's getting really tiresome.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #245279 is a reply to message #245257] |
Wed, 26 March 2014 21:35 |
Bob de Kruyff
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| mikethebike wrote on Wed, 26 March 2014 18:42 |
Same thing they did with the Olds diesel. We were going to buy a 1980 Caprice diesel until I talked with my wifes uncle who sold Buicks (300-600 per year and poor mouthed all the way to the bank) in Charleston and to Dan Perron who had been the top wrench at Hal Warren Chevy before quitting to race full time. Both said the $$$$ men didn't allow enough engineering to be done to make the 350 Olds a diesel According to them all they had was enough money to install the high compression heads and injection and get the thing past EPA. By 1982/3 the problems were corrected but the damage was done. My best friend overf the past 40 years had an 83 Eldorado diesel that he put 350,000 miles with no more than a fuel pump.
| Matt Colie wrote on Wed, 26 March 2014 18:57 |
| ljdavick wrote on Tue, 25 March 2014 21:35 |
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Of course there is the Vega...
Larry Davick
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Larry,
You are only half right.
Most people don't know that the GM Bean counters killed the Vega by not letting the known issues be that were identified during the normal product validation be corrected as the vehicle was intended only as a price leader for first time buyers. The result was it was a loser for last time buyers.
Matt
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The bean counter story will probably never go away. Nor will the stories of aliens in Roswell.
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: [GMCnet] Veghas and urban legends ( HijackedSupplemental brake systems, kenH) [message #245312 is a reply to message #245279] |
Thu, 27 March 2014 08:20 |
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From: Bob de Kruyff NEXT2POOL@AOL.COM
How accurate was DeLorean's book chapter on the Vega?
--johnny
> > Most people don't know that the GM Bean counters killed the Vega by not letting the known issues be that were identified during the normal product validation be corrected as the vehicle was intended only as a price leader for first time buyers. The result was it was a loser for last time buyers.
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> > Matt
The bean counter story will probably never go away. Nor will the stories of aliens in Roswell.
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Bob de Kruyff
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| Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #246685 is a reply to message #245279] |
Mon, 07 April 2014 16:45 |
mikethebike
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The difference is that the GM bean counter stories are true.
| Bob de Kruyff wrote on Wed, 26 March 2014 21:35 |
| mikethebike wrote on Wed, 26 March 2014 18:42 |
Same thing they did with the Olds diesel. We were going to buy a 1980 Caprice diesel until I talked with my wifes uncle who sold Buicks (300-600 per year and poor mouthed all the way to the bank) in Charleston and to Dan Perron who had been the top wrench at Hal Warren Chevy before quitting to race full time. Both said the $$$$ men didn't allow enough engineering to be done to make the 350 Olds a diesel According to them all they had was enough money to install the high compression heads and injection and get the thing past EPA. By 1982/3 the problems were corrected but the damage was done. My best friend overf the past 40 years had an 83 Eldorado diesel that he put 350,000 miles with no more than a fuel pump.
| Matt Colie wrote on Wed, 26 March 2014 18:57 |
| ljdavick wrote on Tue, 25 March 2014 21:35 |
<snip>
Of course there is the Vega...
Larry Davick
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Larry,
You are only half right.
Most people don't know that the GM Bean counters killed the Vega by not letting the known issues be that were identified during the normal product validation be corrected as the vehicle was intended only as a price leader for first time buyers. The result was it was a loser for last time buyers.
Matt
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The bean counter story will probably never go away. Nor will the stories of aliens in Roswell.
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