Totally.

When I was in Rome in 1873, living in the campground in a motor home he built himself, come to think of it it may have been a benz, was an Architect from South Africa. He was working in an office there which was run by an American exile. They were pushing a job out and offered me employment. I worked there for a couple of weeks and earned enough to buy some really nice Italian clothes which I wore til I gained too much weight to get them on anymore. But the use of metrics....well, It took no time at all. They just handed me a metric scale and in a day or so I was thinking in meters.

As Craig said, it is a lot easier to draw and calculate in meters, where everything is decimals. Inches? ridiculous, when making stair tread calculations you have to convert everything to inches, make your calculations and take it back to feet and inches. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

Why we don't convert is a total mystery.....until I think of our fearless president and then......

Tom W

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That makes you at least 134years old?

I think it's just resistance of the public in general. The people out of school don't want to learn a new system and alot of things would still have to be converted from American to Metric and back. It would probably take a generation or two to work all the non-metric measurements out of the system. We can't teach just metric in the school system and teaching them both will just result in them forgetting the metrics and using the American system thats everywhere around them.

But, this thread is starting to get way off topic now.....

I have that black console piece. Interested?

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