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1. Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: Doug Phillips <Douglas.W.Phillips@williams.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 11:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
Our little club met last night and we all tried to solve the trivia puzzle below. The best anyone could do was 18 correct answers. Give it a try. I'll send the answers in a later message. (don't be f
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00229.html (8,764 bytes)

2. Re: Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: Teriann J. Wakeman <twakeman@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 12:24:55 -0700
Doug I only got 14 off the top of my head. But I did look in a catalogue I have on hand that was designed and printed in the UK and intended for UK customers. They mentioned choke cables and shock ab
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00245.html (8,631 bytes)

3. Re: Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil (Marcus Tooze)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 14:48:22 CDT
One thing that really suprised me when I got to this country was that americans use the word coup rather than coupe (should be an accent over the e, pronounced coop-a). Mention you are driving a coup
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00248.html (8,392 bytes)

4. Re: Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: Garry Archer <archer@hsi.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 16:07:47 -0400
I sympathise Marcus. You reminded me of one of my first problems with the local lingo when I came over in 1980. My wife is American, BTW: We were at the local supermarket which had a sloping car park
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00251.html (8,860 bytes)

5. Re: Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: phile@stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 08:46:46 -0500 (CDT)
Makes sense to me. Boot Cover? "Parking tickets were waving like flags on my windscreen" - The Stones Bulkhead. Used on ships in USA Gearbox. Fairly common in USA Tinkertoys. No, wait, that was the f
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00269.html (10,175 bytes)

6. Re: Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: timd@ptltd.com (Tim Dziechowski)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 12:45:55 EDT
Although your dictionary may tell you otherwise, isinglass referred to a form of sheet mica which was used in the US for window coverings in colonial times when glass was expensive. I only happen to
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00280.html (8,407 bytes)

7. Berkshire British Motor Club; Our trivia contest (score: 1)
Author: jhoward@atlas.usno.navy.mil (James Howard)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 15:39:07 EDT
In a similar vein, I just took a girl to lunch today. She was telling me how her whole family has always had stick shift cars. Then one day, she borrowed a friend's automatic. She was at a traffic li
/html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00298.html (8,456 bytes)

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