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Re: Names and all that sort of thing

To: "W." "R." Gibbons <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>, mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Names and all that sort of thing
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 19:41:40 GMT
> 
> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, nolan penney wrote:
> 
> > Real names!  Tough names!  Manly names!  American Names!
> > 
> > Nothing says TOUGH like the AMC Cricket.
> 
> Well, you've unintentionally proved the point.  The Cricket was, if I am 
> not sorely mistaken, sold by Chrysler, not AMC, and it was a british 
> car.  Don't know who was to blame for the name.
> 
>    Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>                 Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
>                 gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910
> 
> 
> 
It may have been a British car but the name Cricket was never used here, I 
don't even know what car you mean, unless it is the Avenger!



PaulH
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