
10-13-2007, 08:30 AM
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Black is Faster...
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Aptos, CA
Posts: 1,869
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Originally Posted by Zunige
Wow! What's happening to us? I don't mean to pick on Patrick, and I certainly value his great comments and contributions on this BB, but I think we are going down a dangerous path, with the tone of the posts getting increasingly poignant...
This BB is what we, the members, will make of it. If we want to make this a place to trade insults, instead of information, that's what it will be. There are many very well educated business people that I know who write in a very different style (without capitals, with unconventional abbreviations, unchecked spelling, etc), when they use on-line communication. By the same token, there are people who are simply not good writers. Both types post on this BB, but we don't go around telling them how they should or should not write...
I was not going to join this thread simply because I am interested in this vehicle and didn't think that it would be appropriate for me to offer comments which could be construed as self-serving. However, we seem to keep escalating the tone of the posts, and I think we are allowing misguided (albeit perhaps well-intentioned) momentum to take us over the top. No one is stopping anyone from inspecting this vehicle in person, and no one is trying to con/scam anyone into sending money anywhere. Finally, if anyone must know, the existence of this vehicle and its current owner are known in the northern NJ area, and can be verified by people in the Alfa community of this area all the way back to at least the early 1980s.
Best regards,
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Enrique,
No worries about "picking on me"; I'm just a regular BB'er.
I agree with most of your comments; however, as I stated in my post, those comments were "my two cents"; those were my direct impressions from reading his post, unfortunately. And no, he doesn't have to change the way he writes for anyone else's/or his own benefit; whatever happens, happens, as a result.
If he's well-known in his area, and is a legitimate owner/seller, I'm glad that my suspicions are proven wrong. Happy selling to him; it seems to be a nice driver, based on description and pictures.
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Patrick Hung
'59 Giulietta Sprint * '63 Giulia Spider * '67 GTV
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