Re: Spirit of Ecstasy in Jackboots?

["kendriq 87.5gt" <kendriq@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:54:53 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Lawrence C Katzenstein <Lawrence.C.Katzenstein-1@tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: Lawrence C Katzenstein <Lawrence.C.Katzenstein-1@tc.umn.edu>
>To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: Spirit of Ecstasy in Jackboots?
>
>Phil,
>    Given the manufacturer of our cars, I guess I too am pleased 
>that BMW will have to pay royalties to VW to make Rolls Royces, but 
isn't
>there even a twinge of British nationalist sentiment here? Speaking of
>royalty, does this mean that the Royals will be riding around in 
Beemers
>or VW's if they buy Rolls Royces? Will the Spirit of Ecstacy be cast 
with
>jackboots and helmets? When on the continent will RR's naturally veer 
at
>full tilt towards Russia? I mean there is a problem of identity here! 
>    Perhaps the way out would be to have the Queen acknowledge the 
German
>roots of the Windsor line for RR commercials. Have the late Lord
>Mountbatten's family return the name to Battenburg, while driving to 
court
>in a Silver Shadow etc. Come to think of it, we could bring back 
pictures
>of Jenny Jerome in advertising Jaguar/Fords too. Why aren't you guys
>building cars anymore? I loved my old ratty Austin-Healey even though 
it
>was almost as big a pain in the ass as my V8. Thank goodness that 
Morgans
>are still built by a family company. There was a certain charm to 
British
>cars. 
>    I vaguely remember some contretemps about 50 years ago where a
>rather chubby but articulate fellow sent some planes called Spitfires
>across the Channel to prevent this sort of thing. 
>    Seriously, isn't there any popular concern of the sort that the US
>masses had when Rockefeller Center was sold to Mitsubishi?
>Best,
>Larry
>
    Remember, that the queen's personal conveyance is a Range Rover(now 
without her coat of arms on the hood as it used to have, for 
discression, security) and Range Rover has been owned by WMB for a 
couple of years.  
   BTW  an old neighbor of mine who builds hot rods(nice ones too if you 
like that sort of thing, I'm going to have him do the paint on the 
coupe) who kept thinking that BMW stood for British Motor Works.  Just 
goes to show how in the dark most domestic car fans are when it comes to 
European cars.  He probably thinks that my Audi is French, or something.  
He sure was confused about the Peugeot that I used to have.
>
>




----Mark Busse
75 100LS {R.I.P.}
85 5kS {R.I.P.}
80 baas 99GLI {for sale}
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