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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: 1/4 mile of one inch wrought  iron
Date: 22 Aug 2024 17:56:52 -0300
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JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

> Jan 30, 2020 
> 
> Family duo takes wrought iron VW bug on famous Route 66
> 
> https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/family-duo-takes-wrought-iron-vw-bug-on-famous-route-66
> 
> Pic
> https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/beetle.jpg

Oh dear.  I love the eccentricity and stubborn persistence despite
rain and road spatter. (Open-work fenders are problematic.)  I'm a
former VW mechanic and this is the weirdest VW I ever saw.

But as an artist blacksmith, I find it kinda annoying.

+ It's all cold-bent, arc-welded steel rod.  There's no forged
  ironwork at all.  The scrolls are all the same with no interesting
  terminals.  Great job matching the classic VW shape but boring
  metalwork. 

+ And they (or the journalist) perpetrate the popular mistake of
  calling anything made from bent ferrous metal "wrought
  iron".  Wrought iron is a particular form of iron, no longer an
  article of commerce and made in a now completely obsolete process.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada