At 10:11 PM 12/4/97 -0500, Andrew Mace wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, I said:
>
>> >At risk of impeachment and other repercussions from the following
>> >statement, I will offer that the early 240Z is one heck of a fun car to
>> >drive....
>> >
>On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
>> I think Mace has gone soft on us. A rice burner is a rice burner is a rice
>> burner. Simply because a nippon type doesn't leak oil, starts on rainy
>> mornings, doesn't rattle and steers accurately doesn't make it qualify as
>> being worthy of laudatory comment. We, the standard bearers of automobile
>> romance, must be ever mindful of the infiltration of harmless appearing
>> little comments as offered by our friend and leader, Andy Mace.
>
>Well, I liked the "friend and leader" part, but....
>
>> Once we FOTers start compromising our high principles of automotive
excellence
>> as demonstrated by our old, rattlely, leaky, noisy and temperamental
machines,
>> we are lost. We must close ranks against any form of radical thinking which
>> might suggest that automotive excellence somehow equates to some form of
>> virtue.
>>
>> We FOTers know better.
>>
>> True automotive virtue is the ethereal quality found deep in the imperfect
>> soul
>> of sometimes whimsically collected components of frequently mismatched
genius,
>> ie, the Triumph.
>>
>> Impeachment?...No! He should be so lucky. I suggest that Andy needs to be
>> taught a lesson. We all know that our forefathers never intended for the
>> Second Amendment to be stretched to include saying almost nice things about
>> a rice burners. What do you think? Any ideas concerning "other
>> repercussions"?
>
>First off, I never said I'd OWN one, just that I liked it.
Andy, this sounds just like, "Well one of my best friends is one."
Truth be
>known, the one and only 240Z I've ever driven did and still does belong
>to the other Hardly Boy, co-owner of the RaceSpit, Rik Schlierer.
>
>Second, doesn't the fact that I have, for many years, championed the cause
>of the poor, downtrodden Triumph 10, Herald and Vitesse/Sports 6 owners
>count for anything? What about the fact that I also own a Mayflower and a
>2000 Mk.1, AND several TR3s AND a GT6+ AND the Hardly Boys RaceSpit 4 AND
>a Mk. 3 Spitfire (and a couple of Volvos and a '51 Chevrolet family
>heirloom -- but I digress)?
Yea, all this counts for a little bit.
>
>I'd probably like a Miata were I ever to drive one. Doesn't mean I want
>one of them, either! ;-)
There you go. Totally unrepentant and backsliding again.
>--Andy
>
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>p.s. Anyone know Johnny Cochran's phone number?
Cochran's number is (213) 931-6200
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