Dear Rich, et al.
Unfortunately, I can report, fyi, that this term was used at least as far
back as the late '40's and I guess things haven't changed much since....
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:19:52 -0700 "Rich Atherton"
<gumby@connectexpress.com> writes:
> In my day, Late 70's, we called them "all show - no go" cars.
>Pretty much
>covered it righ there. It became a put up or shut up procedure on the
>streets
>back then.
>
>Rich
>
>
>>Every era has more than it's fair share of phoney poser's. This time
>>around, it seems to be young guys with cheesy econoboxes trying to
>>equate stickers and loudness with a truly fast car.
>
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