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to: DALE SHIPP
from: Mike Powell
date: 2017-07-07 17:59:00
subject: dead cars

> When we lived in England, I bought what they call a "banger"
which is a
> car so old that one does not care it if gets banged up.  I paid 100
> pound sterling for it, which at the time was about US$250.  England has
> a yearly inspection.  After one year, I had to spend another 50 pounds

When I lived in Louisville, they had inspections but it was mostly to gouge
people into having work done on their exhaust or carborators.  I would have
been shocked if they had started flunking us for rust.  :)

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