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

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

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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