In a message dated 03-11-14, Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Howdy my friend,   
      
   PQ>I hope that you can use it.   
      
   Sure.   
      
   PQ>When I was single (oh, a about three *life* sentences ago), the   
   PQ>Bathurst weekends were 'lost'.  That is to say that nothing else got   
   PQ>done   
      
   I know the symptoms, BG. Maybe I've got wiser or more busy but now I   
   don't hang in the front of the TV anymore but I check what's going on   
   on Motors TV every time I switch on the set.   
      
   PQ>Fascinating.  The other classes were usually a distraction from the   
   PQ>big battles between Holden & Ford.  Nothing else mattered.  Oops.    
   PQ>;-)   
      
   Didn't learn that from the history I read. It just showed the bunch of   
   vehicles after the start and from what I saw there were no V8's among   
   them. OTOH all sports begin from a lean beginning and grow bigger by   
   time.   
      
   PQ>I don't know specifics, but by about 2020 both Holden & Ford will   
   PQ>not be producing anything other than after-market spare parts.    
   PQ>Them's the breaks.   
      
   Well the Ford plans were to deactivate its racing activities next season   
   but Winterbottom changed that.   
      
   PQ>Both companies were producing overpriced vehicles (whilst being   
   PQ>subsidised), still, when a goodly proportion of the driving public   
   PQ>chose to buy imports or others (we had a 'fleet' of two Aussie-built   
   PQ>Mitsubishis at one time).  I'm driving a Toyota Corolla hatchback   
   PQ>these days and Barb has a sweet little Nissan pocket-rocket (still   
   PQ>with my music USB stuck in the stereo... dammit!).   
      
   Many different cars have passed through my hands but all of them except   
   the Austin Mini Cooper S (english) have been french. Ilike to drive the   
   soft sprung french cars,   
      
   Have a nice morning,   
      
   Holger   
      
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