List,
Since we have had this thread going on "terms" thought you might like this
quote from Randall Jarrell in a 1957 article.
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" About sports cars even a lot of learning goes a little way. You must learn
--- well, more than most people would ever want to learn. You must learn not
to confuse Nash-Healey with Frazer-Nash, and Austin Healey, an Aston Martin.
Don't mix up Delahayes, Delages, De Dions---a De Dion isn't even a car any
more but a kind of rear axle, and you need to know what kind. As for Farinas;
Pinin is the best contemporary car-designer, Nino is the racing-driver and
Stabilimento isn't a man but an establishment---it makes bodies. You mustn't
confuse initials: TC's, TD's and TF's are different---words can't express how
different---MG's; these have nothing to do with AC's, nor with HRG's, nor with
BMW's---Frazer-Nash once were British BMW's, and EMW's are Soviet Zone BMW's
and . . . but surely you don't want me togo on."
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Gone camping, be back Sunday night.
Bob and Annice
1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
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