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  1. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    I have to correct myself. I could sell it for shocking 20.000 €! The most expensive car when it comes to PS per Euro, I guess.
  2. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    I have read, that during the test drives of the prototypes, a box with 100 Eggs were placed in the rear. After the eggs survived a drive over one of the typical french land roads, the suspension was approved. We expected it to pass the "Moose Test" with bravour. How hard we tried to get this...
  3. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    I had a blue 2CV. I bought it 1999 for a bit over 1200 €. It was dead cheap here in Germany, insurance and all because of it's little motor and based on accident statistics - they were either driven by only a few very careful women or drivers (me included) were too anxious to cause an accident...
  4. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    This car was built by Karmann in Osnabrück, 15 km from where I live now. I had many friends who worked there until it closed down. Wilhelm Karmann Jr. was one of the supporters of our University and also some of our Museums. The Ghia is one of their most famous cars, but they also built all VW...
  5. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    Yes, all GM. We had the Opel Admiral and Opel Diplomat. I remember that we called them "Strassenkreuzer", hard to translate, maybe something like "Men-O-War on wheels". They rusted badly, unfortunately, but so did all other cars back then. Huge cars for the time and for european standards. The...
  7. CatsCan

    Post Brexit import experiences

    My first experience post Brexit was a couple of days ago. Ebay's Global Shipping Program (Pitney Bowes) used to ship items from the US to the EU over the GSC Erlanger, KY, USA to Feltham, GB, south of London, where the customs were processed. From Feltham it was shipped to other EU states. But...
  8. CatsCan

    Your First Car....

    1970 Mercedes W115 /8 midnight blue. Purchased 1990.
  9. CatsCan

    Some GOOD News!

    ... so you enjoyed the German-American Volksfest ;) Aha! Duty from Tank to Tank Top...
  10. CatsCan

    Some GOOD News!

    here we have a very interesting perspective. Germany of Schmidt's youth had just shaken off the first very delicate experience of what it means to live a progressive lifestyle in a kind of a tender childhood state of democracy with the lacking capabilities of toddler and limited opportunities...
  11. CatsCan

    Some GOOD News!

    Interesting, yes. There are a lot of people who still adore him and say, he was a great strategist. But his praised diplomacy of balancing powers was a fragile cardhouse, prone or even deliberately designed to collapse when he got dismissed. His political measures often falsely undestood as war...
  13. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    I hope, you are 64! ;) ..now we come from old comic books to old horror movies, who can remember? No x-ray glasses but with certain pills you know he could see...great at the lower doses but...
  14. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Oh man.... "a real terror"
  15. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Back to topic, I hope we can continue this thread to future report fraudulent behaviour in the world wide web concerning the items of desire which are so typical for this forum like hq fedora hats, hq leather jackets, rare military jackets, higher end repros, suits, and so on. We can gather...
  16. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Another story: French watches, especially from Paris, were among the finest from the 1770s until about the early 1800s. But the Revolution of 1789 had it's impact. The english makers were competing them in the fight for the american market. The british americans prefered english watches out of...
  17. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    That's putting lipstick on a pig :)
  19. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Wasn't it this some scholars dreamt of, convincing communist countries of the benefits of capitalism? I have a chocolate cup. It was produced in China for the european market back in 1750. It was part of the cargo of porcelain, tea, gold, shipped on board the VOC ship Geldermalsen 1751 with...
  20. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    I suppose you are right about that...
  21. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Yeah, but when you find "niche" products you specifically searched google for and some show up, you often don't immediately think about fraud. You simply don't see how this would pay out for them instead of offering any widely known product (like popular fashion brands or designer brands like...
  22. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Forgot to mention: the scam shop that fooled me has a website starting with https://. So not all of them use http:// which often is said to be one of the typical signs for a scam store. The diagnostics become more difficult.
  23. CatsCan

    Fake Shops

    Thanks alot folks! what we do here right now is very valuable! We place a warning which may be of a huge help for all of our fellow loungers who are not so social-media-savy. Since there are more and more products of our typical "prey-scheme" like Eastman Jackets and others showing up in scam...

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