And of course there's "Classical", which you sometimes see in car for-sale ads.
This obviously means a car from ancient Greece or Rome.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 06:39 PM 5/9/02 , William Davies wrote:
> > Classic
> > ^^^^^^^
>A while back I got dragged into the rhetorical discussion about this on
>uk.rec.cars.classic, where many people at that time were keen to bash the
>Morris Marina. Getting sick of people who were happy to dismiss anything once
>plentiful but not groundbreaking as completely worthless, I submitted the
>following:
>"Not having a copy of the OED to hand, I checked the dictionary.com website.
>I like their noun definition number 4 which states "A typical or traditional
>example. ""
>Of course there are plenty of other definitions of the term, but this one fits
>my vision of what classic cars mean to me.
> Cheers,
> Bill.
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