----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Tabacco <atabacco@california.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:22 PM
Subject: flame
> Ok This is drifting beyond civility. In a crusade to return this post to
> reason, I would note that personal aspersions can, and should, be ignored.
> The denigration of British cars however, is an entirely different matter,
> and requires prompt and vigorous rebuttal. I have heard all this before
and
> I can see where its heading. It becomes a marquee trashing mob, and its
ugly
> because you won't think anyone will be hurt. Wrong! Most of you are too
> young to remember when they, and this is with sincere apologies to the
Alfa
> folks, were the only show in town. Sorry but that German brand doesn't
count
> because they were out of reach for real (read young) people. Here is ONE
> TRUE THING:
>
> When your car breaks or stops spontaneously late at night on a country
road,
> the parts to fix it can be found within a twenty foot radius of where it
> comes to rest. Memorize this.
>
> You don't believe me, do you ? You don't even believe that thirty years
ago
> they were all country roads, but they were. But then, you also don't
believe
> that a car could just sort of stop on its own while in motion, but they
can.
>
> Did you know that you can pull the head of a 59 Sprite and repair a holed
> piston top with a wood screw right there by the road? I mean hey (!), the
> compression is down, and those wood screws have really big heads, right?
>
> Did you know that you can align the intake manifold of a 66 TR4A using
> pencils and ordinary twigs, and then wire the thing to the block tight
> enough not let unmixed air in and to keep the throttle linkage more or
less
> normal? By the way, the twigs are because you never carry enough car
repair
> pencils.
>
> I could go on (and on, and on actually..) but you'll never know what it
> means to see you entire exhaust system, twin mufflers and resonators, all
> intact but lying in the road in you rearview mirror (both a TR and MG100),
> nor what its like to watch your rear wheel, tire, and knock off leisurely
> drift away at 15 miles per hour from your car and weave through traffic to
> hit a miniature golf course ( you had been going 100 plus through Big Sur
> the night before), but most especially you'll never know what it like to
> absolutely utterly (but responsibly) blow away a 7 litre trans-am with a
chicken decal hood on
> the La Honda road with a 1.6 and skinny rubber.
>
> I didn't even get to the Spitfire, the 3A, 6, the Sprigets, but I hope I
got
> to the point and that is that cars are fun, and screwing around in cars is
> fun, and especially, screwing around with people who have fun in cars is
> fun. When its gets as strange as some of the posts lately, you have to ask
> yourself one question: Quick, who holds the Jenner to Sea Ranch record?
In
> a cooper engine mini-moke? (hint:not me) Be good
>
> Tony
>
>
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