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- From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: '57 tr3 no engine go jap
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:40:52 GMT
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- In article <qy5mwfg@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >
- >I heard that the reason british sports cars have two seats is so the
- >full time mechanic will have a place to sit between repairs. Sounds
- >credible to me.
-
- Me too. I've had two of them, and would rather have my
- entrails eaten by rats than have another! I had an Triumph
- TR4 (about a '62 or '63, something like that) which was not
- so bad, although not up to the level of, say, an Edsel.
- The other was a little MG Midget. This car was evidently
- built as some sort of revenge instrument. It would sit
- in the garage and things would just break, even though they
- were not being used.....I bought it for my teen-aged daughter,
- who thought it was "cute" and pleaded for it. I found out
- from her years later that she spent most of her time pushing
- it from one place to another, because it would break down and
- she was ashamed to tell me after begging for it :-) The only
- good thing was that it was so little that she could easily
- push it. Never got a ticket for speeding, either.
-
- I like the British, though. My ancestors. Can't build sports
- cars worth a damn, however.
-
- John
-
-
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- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
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