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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:39:26 -0700
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- From: JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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- Subject: Re: Sweatin' it out
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- >Do you remember the old car air-conditioners that were shaped like a
- >butane/propane tank (only much smaller) and were mounted at the top and
- >outside of a car window?
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- >yes....LONG ago...... o-)
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- >cyclops
- I was going to say, "Oh, it wasn't THAT long ago, Dan!" when I
- remembered, ooops, yea, I guess over twenty years WAS! They never did
- work worth a damn, either. "360" air-conditioning was better. Natalie,
- I too remember those huge plastic air ducts - first car I remember seeing
- them in was a '54 Cadillac. (The only car still in production named after
- an explorer...) That was the one with the hidden filler car, too.
-
- John "I like Ike" W.
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