Re: nicked

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

At 6:49 PM +0200 11/12/99, Pantelis Giamarellos wrote:
>Late model 911s too are not as tricky as the old ladies.
>A friend of mine is driving a circa 80's 911 Turbo he bought back then as a
>babes magnet. When it rains he always gets his Land Rover Discovery which he
>bought when he got married.

Jeez.  You guys are just made out of money over there, eh? :)


>As for the e30 Bimmers I think that only the M3 was decent on a wet surface.
>Here in Greece where tarmac is as slippery as a bar of soap on a wet
>bathtab, boyracers drive e30 to impress their girlfriends with lots of tail
>happy drifts. (neon light plates, extra thin tyres, dual tail pipes with
>extra loud noise, yellow painted lights, fur dices hanging from the
>windscreen mirror, you get the picture)

Boston College and Boston University students get the same "options 
package" as your fellow countrymen, minus the fuzzy dice.  The 
vehicles of choice around those places:

-BMW 3 series or M3(varies, sometimes totally stock appearance, 
sometimes incredibly stupid looking)

-Honda Civic(completely tricked out 12 ways from sunday)

-Lexus SUVs(not many, and totally stock; owned by filthy rich college 
"students" so they can be really popular and take all the friends 
along.  Most of these drivers are women.  Most popular model is the 
egg-thing; the land-rover based unit isn't quite as common because of 
the much higher pricetag.

-Mustang/Mustang Cobra.  Usually owned by 
good-old-boy-football-player types.  Rarely modified except maybe 
with spoilers, racing stripes, and those dumbass multicolored 
lightbulbs

-Toyota Supra Twin Turbos(the "new" style ones with the funny tail 
lights.)  Usually modifications include an 
even-larger-than-the-rediculously-large-factory spoiler(like you ever 
get going fast enough anywhere in Boston except the Pike to use it\.)

-and, yes, A4's.  Usually not modified, most of the a4's with college 
students aren't modified, probably because the owners come from way 
too respectable backgrounds to "do" that sort of "thing" :)  However, 
among modified A4's, the mods are usually stupid sounding 3 inch 
exhausts(sounds like a perpetual fart), clear signals all around, 
tinted windows, slammed, with 18 inch wheels with rubber-band tires. 
Easy(and fun) pickings for informal stoplight competitions.

-E series sedans.  CLK coupes for the really sickeningly rich brats. 
-Never- modified(at least visibly.)


ack.  op bbun jk The feline member of the household has just occupied 
the lap, a feat consider there is a laptozazp alread4y the1re.  Must 
go :-7)

po'/';.].

Brett
91 200q20v
198? all-american, extremely insistent, feline w/double traction 
paws(a genetic abnormality traced to Boston, rare for all 4 paws) all 
around, including claws all around(youch.)

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