Hanno/David/Nuyt/Cliff/Stellan

[Bill Murray]

Hanno and friends.

Ouch. I knew my scan on the USMC MH was bad but not that bad and I will never send one like that again.

Let me say in short, no on second hand I am never short, this is the best group of automotive enthusiasts I have ever encountered and I am on many dozens of such sites.
Even if we never meet, I count all of you among my best friends.

It is this friendship that drives me to get as much as I can to as many as would like it as quickly as I can. I have an archive/collection/whatever you want to call it. I am in reasonably good health but will obviously not last forever. I would hate to see that body of information be lost to folks like yourselves. Where is Bart Vanderveen's collection today, where is Walter Spielbergers, Werner Oswalds, Jean Gabriel Jeudy's etc. etc. My collection is nowhere near as big as theirs but it is big enough. Fred Crismon still has his but is not doing anything with it nor is Uwe Feist and a few others I know. I cannot write books so this is my method of sharing.

To the age thing, and it doesn't bother me Hanno, I have had a very full life so far. I was fortunate to have been given pretty high level jobs at a very young age and managed to do well enough to keep getting better ones. Lot's of responsibility but also lots of excellent staff so I could indulge myself in my free time. One benefit of working for Swedish companies was that no matter where I lived I always had to take the mandatory 5 weeks holiday (at least it was five weeks up till 13 years ago). Since starting my own business 13 years ago I have only taken about 3 weeks of holiday the whole time. Free time is a rare commodity for me and I can only devote an hour or so a day to my second love, the history and development of soft skinned vehicles.

Well, enough of that. I think I have broken through quite a lot of barriers these last few weeks. Just need more practice which I think I can now do off line so to say before making the final posting effort.

One thing Hanno, I mentioned posting the same thing 10 or more times and you may have misunderstood. Since the site would not take the image the posting never happened. I have only edited the ones that did get through as I was typing a lot of stuff only to have it disapper when the site refused the posting. Hopefully, I will get it right the first time more often than not in the future.

I appreciate your remarks about keeping some stuff on a separate site and as mentioned earlier I am trying to get that going.

Got to run for now.
Regards
Bill