I was a little lower down on the food chain in the 50's, with a new VW. One
always waved at other Beetles, which were rare in Iowa where we lived, but
disdained to wave at Renault Dauphines. The cool part was that you could
dice with a Dauphine on the highway at top speed, and no one would know as
you both were well under the speed limit, (unless there was a tail wind).
Paul Meis
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>From: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>
>To: "'vintage-race@autox.team.net '" <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Vintage Racing?
>Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2001, 1:37 AM
>
> Regarding the "wave", Tom Butters wrote:
>
>>There was always a pecking order . . .
>>It was complicated and sometimes you
>>didn't know if an oncoming car was
>>wave-worthy until the last moment-
>>one had to stay alert.
>
> Indeed. There was also (if one paid attention to such things) a heirarchy of
> possible waves . . .
>
> From the "All-Out" (arm overboard, hand raised and actually waving from side
> to side - generally reserved for identical british cars) and the
> "Temporizing" (arm remains inside the cockpit, held upright but motionless,
> similar to the Moss "passing wave" - usually exchanged between 'similar'
> cars) to the "Yeah, I see you" (hand remains on the steering wheel, wave
> consists entirely of raising the index finger in the air - typically seen
> emanating from German cars, and occasionally returned by British cars using
> a different finger).
>
> Jim Hill
> Madison WI
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