Re: nick-names for our cars

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

AMV8 are ok, sound nice, look wonderful, but for road holding and
reliability go for the Urq everytime.... BTDT for a weekend and shattered a
dream. Now a 550 or 465, different story, 355 ok if you haven't driven the
other two... How? friend owns a garage with a very good stock!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian J Haseltine <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>
To: Daryl Roxburgh <droxburgh@email.msn.com>;  <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 16 May 1998 23:28
Subject: Re: nick-names for our cars


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daryl Roxburgh <droxburgh@email.msn.com>
>>Collectable cars.... well the TR6 is one.
>Yeah, but you have to grow a beard and wear chunky jumpers to own one..:-)
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>>common MG,
>cravat, string-back gloves and a flat cap
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>>Austin Healy
>MCC tie, white flannels and black blazer.
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>I was gridlocked eastbound at one of the many roundabouts on the York
>by-pass yesterday when a BRG Aston Martin Vantage crawled past doing about
>2mph in the westbound queue - now that's what I call an engine note, and
>since it was about 12 inches from my right ear I was still able to hear it
>for most of the evening.
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>Jim Haseltine
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