Re: nick-names for our cars

["Daryl Roxburgh" <droxburgh@email.msn.com>]

Yes!

Triumph TR6 1973:    Tigger (tops are made out of rubber, bottoms made out
of springs, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, fun,fun,fun etc)

Ur-q    like my previous ones : rowdy and there by hangs a story. Some years
ago I had a white 87 coupe quattro. Time came to sell and I traded it for an
'89? new style coupe quattro -still no turbo!  Well, it was traded through a
friends garage. It sounded really rorty due to no baffles left in the
exhaust. I had a call from my friend who said he had just has a blind man
looking at the car. This man had felt it all over, listened to the wonderful
sound, and been driven in it by his driver, but it was the sound that sold
it to him! So he bought it....... then the finance fell through, and the
poor car ended up at auction. D339 HYT a great car in which I had so much
fun, hence, 8 years later I have bought the Ur.

Collectable cars.... well the TR6 is one. But, not as much as the far more
common MG, neither command as much ££ as the contemporary Austin Healy 'cos
it looks even more '50s. The Ur's time will come, but I looked back through
my old mags to try and find a contemporary road test, and 88 list price, and
found I was buying Classic Car then not Autocar... its got a long time to
go, so look after them, but most importantly drive and enjoy. TR has always
been used - I've had it 15 years - when needed, rain or shine, and is better
for it.

Happy motoring




-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 16 May 1998 06:41
Subject: nick-names for our cars


>In message <355CD610.CEAAFE96@bu.edu> "Daniel R. LeFebvre" writes:
>
>> does anybody refer to their car by another name other than "the car."
>
>Yup.
>
>The 1988 MB ur-quattro is universally called "the beast".
>
>The 1986 Passat is referred to as "the shitheap".
>
>Thus: "Are you taking the beast?"   "No dear, I'm taking the shitheap."
>
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