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Re: Mustang...Spitfire???

To: "Shawn Loseke" <SLoseke@vines.colostate.edu>, "Dr. Faustus" <faustus@inconnect.com>, "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net>, "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>
Subject: Re: Mustang...Spitfire???
From: "Paul J. Burr" <tigerpb@ids.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:35:02 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "Spitfire List" <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "Triumph List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Loseke <SLoseke@vines.colostate.edu>
To: Dr. Faustus <faustus@inconnect.com>; Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>; Kai
Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>
Cc: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>; Triumph List
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Mustang...Spitfire???


>
>Don't forget the Italians (Ferrari, Alfa etc...) or the French (Bugattii)
>-------------
>Original Text
>From: "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>, on 3/14/1999 1:35 PM:
>Dr. Faustus wrote:
>
>>Unlike the Mustang, the Spitfire is a true sports car.
>
>
>The notion of the Americans producing a true sports car is just silly to
>begin with.  We all know that the only sports cars ever produced came from
>Europe, and even at that... the best came from England and Germany.
>
>chocks away,
>
>--
>Kai Radicke -- kai@radiohead.net
>1966 MGB -- 1974 Triumph TR6




OK, how do you explain the Viper,  the new Corvette, and the '99 Mustang
Cobra? They'll paste just about anything euro or Asian to a wall, and
usually at about half the cash outlay. And, the old saw about American
muscle cars only being straight line performers doesn't apply any more.




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