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. 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)?
I'd probably like a Miata were I ever to drive one. Doesn't mean I want
one of them, either! ;-)
--Andy
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p.s. Anyone know Johnny Cochran's phone number?
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