Re: Plastic Fantasies

[Kneale Brownson <knotnook@traverse.com>]

And then there was the young lady who died in hers because  it decided to
fly off the Mackinac Bridge spanning the straits between Michigan's two
peninsulas.  It was the first vehicle off that bridge in more than 30 years
since it was opened (a second yahoo took the plunge in a Roncob a few years
later, but that was deemed a suicide).

Kneale Brownson

At 12:16 AM 9/11/99 -0400, Nate Stuart wrote:
>Saw one at the junk yard. It was being pushed around by hand _in gear_ with
>compression (what they had). Didn't seem all that much bigger than the
>gentleman pushing it, I think it was a cooler for the frosty cold ones....
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ti Kan <ti@amb.org>
>To: Decsi Miklos <MDecsi@pgsm.hu>
>Cc: <rallyquattro@yahoo.com>; <quattro@audifans.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Plastic Fantasies
>
>
>> Decsi Miklos writes:
>> > >Get a Yugo... or get a life!
>> >
>> > You really have Yougos there? I don't believe it. Is it really the
>> > (formely)Yougoslavian made car?
>>
>> Yes, Yugos were imported to the US for a few years in the 80s.
>> The base model sold for $3995 at the time.  Not too many of them
>> left now.
>>
>> -Ti
>> 96 A4 2.8 quattro
>> 84 5000S 2.1 turbo
>> 80 4000 2.0
>> --
>>     ///  Ti Kan                Vorsprung durch Technik
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>>
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