We have a member in the MG club who has insisted we fly the English flag,
the cross of St. George, rather than the Union flag at our events because
the cars were English, not British.
Later we had as our guest an individual who worked at the MG factory. I
asked him whether the car parts were sourced exclusively from England
rather than the other areas of Britain. He didn't know off-hand how many
of the parts were sourced outside of England, but he could tell me for a
fact that the fuel tanks for the MGBs (at least) came from Wales.
We denounced our member as anti-Welsh and we haven't heard much about it
since.
Do we need to sic the Welsh on you?! ;-)
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:50:23 -0800 b-evans@earthlink.net writes:
> Tell me why people own classic cars insist on calling them "LBC" or
> "Little British Cars"? Let's get it straight folks, they are LEC's
> or
> Little English Cars. They were not made in Wales, they were not
> made in
> Scotland, they were not made in Northern Ireland, they were not made
> in
> the Channel Isles. They were made in ENGLAND!
>
> Tell me why people who own what are now known as "Mark I" Sprites
> use
> English terms such as bonnet, hood, cheerio, etc., still refuse to
> call
> the cars by their ENGLISH name: Frogeyes? That is FROGEYE, as in
> frogs, as in Kermit! After all, they are far more loveable than a
> flie
> or mosquito! Or cockroach!
>
> Buster Evans
>
> Your messages not
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