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[barretcreek]

Friend sent me a pic his daughter took of a personalized Yamaha thumper he's trying to identify. I suggested she or her friend take a photo of the VIN plate.

"They're PhD candidates. Wouldn't know what a VIN is or where to look".

[dryheat]

The VIN isn't all that easy to find or read. It's like a secret treasure you have to find. Kind of like windshield wipers. I've hated changing WSWB's since I was sixteen. Now you get a package with blades and five little plastic parts to coincide with whatever company installed the windshield wiper blades. So, it's like trying to crack a safe or disarm a bomb; you have thirty seconds until the rain really starts to come down.

[togor]

Sounds like the guy has reverse snobbery. Some doctorates require someone to really be on the ball.

I have a kid in Chicago who is a MD in emergency medicine, driving an old Malibu that has used oil from day 1 and needs constant dipstick attention. And among other niggling issues the gas gauge no longer works and it's all scratched up. But it's the perfect Chicago car in many respects.

Nurses think the docs don't know how to do anything but most of them would not be able to keep this car going reliably.