[Way OT - but canucks and brits will love this] ThequeenDeclares - After recent electrions...

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

yes, elise is a thing of beauty, she could have my
heart like no other lady could.  well worth the 40k
she costs.  
--- Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:

> 
> Say what you want about the old unreliable Britt
> cars, the new ones are much
> improved! In particular the Toyota drive train in
> the Lotus Elise
> <http://www.lotuscars.com/lotus.html> is pretty damn
> good! It may even make
> an acceptable C230 replacement vehicle!
> 
> -Marc in love with the Elise
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf
> Of Lars Bruchmann
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:35 PM
> To: Gordon Forbess
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: [Way OT - but canucks and brits will
> love this] The
> queenDeclares - After recent electrions...
> 
> yes, my neighbour had a triumph, or something like
> that, i drove it to my prom.  the brake swere almost
> no-existent, it was quite a ride.  i'm joking of
> course, there are many great british cars, and the
> rovers are very nice.  i was doing something to my
> jetta in the hobby shop at sheppard afb, and someone
> drove in with a jag, one of those 12 cyl types.  he
> left about 30 min. later, the guys at the shop said
> he
> was there weekly, fixing something.  looking at the
> floor i spotted every fluid the car had in it-
> trans,
> oil, radiator, and brake fluid.  i'm sure it leaked
> freon too, but that evaporated i guess.  
> --- Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:34:02 -0800 (PST), you
> wrote:
> > 
> > >have you ever driven a brit car??  unless i'm in
> > the
> > >bush, or on the savanna, and in a land rover, i'm
> > not
> > >getting in one!!!  (they even have the wheel on
> the
> > >wrong side!!!)
> > 
> > Should have added: :-)
> > 
> > Short answer: yes, I've driven several.  TR4, MG
> > Midget, Land Rover &
> > 5-ton Bedford truck (military versions), and AH
> 3000
> > that my buddy had
> > when we in the Army in Germany.   The AH had a bad
> > habit of leaking
> > oil onto the exhaust manifold in turns and
> produced
> > large clouds of
> > blue-white smoke which exited through the open
> > cockpit.  It had no
> > top, and cruising through a German village in the
> > dead of winter, oil
> > smoke pouring out as if on fire, got plenty of
> > stares from the locals.
> > 
> > Rest of answer:  But I never had to turn a wrench
> on
> > ANY of them!  I
> > watched a frat brother flunk out of school trying
> to
> > keep an MG TD
> > running.  A neighbor had a Spitfire IRS that
> > required him to rebuild
> > the rear end so many times I stopped counting.  I
> > have known
> > (pre-Ford) Jaguar owners who referred to their
> cars
> > as "The Prince of
> > Darkness" for spontaneous, unannounced total
> > electrical failures.  In
> > reality you have to assume that if anyone was
> > driving a Jag, they had
> > a second one as well since one always had to be
> "in
> > the shop."
> > 
> > Somewhere I read that Brit cars are like they are
> > because Brits would
> > really rather "tinker" on the car than actually
> > drive it.  Kind of
> > like old Sciroccos?
> > 
> > Gordon
> > 
> > 75 Mk1/Drake 1.9
> >
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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