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Old 06-02-2020, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ykobayashi View Post
This is actually funny. I worked at HP R&D and the old guys there used to talk about an engineer with a beige 240d just like mine. He had retired before I started. Apparently he really babied the car and it was kind of a joke among the engineers. The guy was an analog circuit designer. The lab was in Palo Alto in the building where Tesla resides today.

I cannot recall the guys name but I think he was Chinese. Maybe. The lab was a pretty small place. 500 employees.
This has to be the same car... Not Chinese, however. Jim Eaton.
I've looked him up, but sadly, don't think he's still around.

Aside from the weird issues I've probably created myself, this car has clearly been babied.

I mounted one of the name tags in the trunk as a sort of homage.
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