It's nice to see that Frank is mellowing with age....
Frank Clarici wrote:
> Trevor Boicey wrote:
>
> > Why are you comparing American "collectables" to Japanese
> > standards like Corollas and Coronas?
>
> I wasn't.
> Some said something about Vegas, Citations, Pintos.
> Unless they are collectables now.
> The japs don't make collectables other then maybe some Z cars or early
> Datsun (MGB lookalikes) Oh yeah the Honduh 600 (Mini lookalike) is
> collectable too.
> Since you are the one hellbent on the "printed word"
> Remember this....
> I have 3 bumper stickers, I bought them at different car shows.
> 1 says "Jap Cars Suck"
> 1 says "30 years later jap cars still suck"
> 1 says "only a wang would drive a jap car"
> Yes I also have the "all parts falling off this car are of the finest
> english workmanship" sticker but....
> I never saw a "American cars suck" or "German cars suck" sticker.
> The jap car market filled a nitch in the world, that nitch being a plain
> looking, cheap made, reliable mode of transportation for the people who
> don't care what the are seen in.
> The run like refridgerators, they look like refridgerators, and they are
> for people who exist in refridgerators.
> So if you want to be one OF a million, buy a jap car and disappear in
> the masses. Drive it from your tract house that looks just like all the
> rest in your neighborhood, to your office cubical, back to the tract
> house.
> Lots of tract houses, lots of office cubicals, so lots of jap cars all
> filling the nitch for the drones in the world.
>
> > (and for what it's worth, my first car was an 83 Corolla
> > and I still see it driving around occasionally. And there is
> > at least three Coronas I see on a regular basis around
> > here. Do you open your eyes when you go outside? ;> )
>
> Yeah I do but the Corona looks like all other jap cars, Unnoticable!
> How many Crowns or Carinas have you seen?
> Today I saw another Pinto on the road.
> --
>
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> One Too Many Sprites Again
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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