My .02
All cars are great!
If it moves via an engine and has brakes, four wheels, I think its a marvel.
The older the better.
I love 'em all!
If I hit the lottery, I'll have to hire a big mean accountant. Because I'd
my first purchase would be to buy out a storage company and start filling it
with a different model in every car-sized portal!!!
The SO might have her own ideas....
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 4:21 PM
Subject: Better, or Different
><<Sometimes it gets so silly, I almost feel like type Triumph
>over and over again. What is it with the Marque snobbery?
>I mean, considering what most LBC types do with their cars,
>just what is it that makes an MG better than a TR? I mean,
>do people with the Octagon just polish the car better?
>
>I can just see it at the show:
>
>"Well, I spent more money, have more original chrome, and well
>just shine better than that TR guy!">>
>
>Marque rivalry is just that - silly. But isn't that what little kids in the
>schoolyard, and big nations do to each other all the time?
>I have enough different kinds of cars that I haven't for a number of years
had
>any problem with admitting their various flaws, but tell a typical immature
>(mentally) owner that his car isn't as fast, as good looking, or as
anything
>else as someone else's car, and it's like like telling him that he's lousy
in
>bed, or he's ugly or some other personal insult.
>I'm afraid that unless everyone suddenly grows up (I think you'll agree an
>unlikely prospect), we will have to continue to tolerate puerile attitudes,
>something that, at times, annoys me as much as it apparently does you.
>
>Bill S.
>Lots of cars
>few illusions
>
>
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