urq who?

[Jim Haseltine]

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From: <aparatii at xprt.net>

> I
> would just like to report that in the last year of keeping my eye out, I
>have not seen a single urq, in fact, I have never seen one (except in
photos
>of course)
> Is it just me? Do you guys see em alot? (not counting those of you who are
>driving them of course)
> I live in the portland area and am always looking at the cars around me...
>See the occasional CGT's... but thats about it. Whats the deal!? Are they
>just really rare or what?

This got me thinking and as its been a quiet night I've tried quantifying
the
question by using my own experiences from here in the UK.
Number of cars imported ~2500, possibly some 1000 still in existence. Over
the last 5 years, not counting my own cars, ones at club meetings, ones at
car shows or those owned by people that I know, I've seen 9 on the road
(possibly 10 but I suspect that one of them I've seen twice with different
drivers) and one of those was on a trailer.
Now the UK is a small place when compared with the US and we got a lot more
Ur-q's so I reckon that you'd have to be pretty lucky to see one ever. To
make it worse, considering that they are usually moving and probably in a
different direction to you, actually realising that you've seen one is quite
an achievement.

Regards,

Jim Haseltine