WSpohn4 wrote:
>
> <<"This is the coolest car I have ever seen go
> right in and thanks for choosing this field so I could see it". Must of
> been the Brit Flag paint job on the boot lid.
> Safety Fast,
> David Deutsch>>
>
> I thought you were kidding about that tasteless paint job, and then realized
> that you were serious, and that you apparently like it as well.
> Maybe I've just seen too many poor LBCs sullied by questionable decor.
> A guy at our local All British Field Meet had a Daimler SP 250 with the most
> garish Union Jack paint job all across his lovely cast alloy Turner designed
> engine. He noticed me staring at it in disbelief and made the mistake of
> asking what I thought.
> I told him that the normal response of anyone looking at an SP 250 isn't to
> wonder where it is from, but to wonder what the hell it is!
> At least their styling makes my Jensen CV8 (and just about anything else, for
> that matter) look good by comparison.
>
> Bill S.
> Lots of cars, no Union Jacks
All right now. If you are gonna badmouth my Daimler, you're gonna piss
me off. Its not ugly, just different. John
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