Reply to "Air Cleaner"

Hello Steve; Your evaluation is "Spot On"!...& whom am I to criticize the person paying that amount for a Mangusta air cleaner, when I just paid $70.00 for a seat belt receiver for my 1973 CJ ( Cobra Jet) Mach 1, being that for a 1973 Mach 1 that seat belt receiver was ONLY made for 1973, a 1 year only run.

For if I extrapolated the value of my 1973 CJ Mach 1 ( It's a "1" of "1" according to Marti Report) at $20,000.00 & a DeTomaso Mangusta at $200,000.00, then my $70.00 seat belt receiver becomes a $700.00 seat belt receiver if it were for a Mangusta.

I just remembered I paid $200.00 for a "Special" Cobra Jet air cleaner with a vacuum actuated "Trap Door"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-1...em35e2840e0d&vxp=mtr

so...multiply MY $200.00 Mach 1 air cleaner by the 10xs Mangusta valuation & you get a $2,000.00 Mangusta air cleaner!..

DAMN!....hoisted on my own Petard by my own logic!...Mark

Pétardiers were used during sieges of castles or fortified cities. The pétard, a rather primitive and exceedingly dangerous explosive device, consisted of a brass or iron bell-shaped device filled with gunpowder fixed to a wooden base called a madrier. This was attached to a wall or gate using hooks and rings, the fuse lit and, if successful, the resulting explosive force, concentrated at the target point, would blow a hole in the obstruction, allowing assault troops to enter.
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase hoist with one's own petard, which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap," implying that one could be lifted up (hoist, or blown upward) by one's own bomb.