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

[DMaula at gordonrees.com (Denny Maula)]

I heart the elise.



-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Getty [mailto:marc@getty.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:13 PM
To: 'Lars Bruchmann'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: [Way OT - but canucks and brits will love this]
ThequeenDeclares - After recent electrions...



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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