In a message dated 6/3/03 4:25:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
schnittke@mindspring.com writes:
> Those are the rules of the game. The earliest homologated car, somewhere in
>
> the world, named for an animal without being a deliberate misspelling
> (allowances for language differences).
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That would be the 1897 Mercedes.
"In 1897, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, travelled from his home in
Nice, France to purchase a car from the Daimler factory in Cannstatt, Germany.
On
his return to the French Riviera, his sporting Daimler Phoenix caused such a
sensation that he decided to enter it into a local touring competition, under
the name of "Mercedes" after his favourite 9 year old daughter."
People are animals. And so are spiders, BTW. The other options are
vegetables, minerals, microbes or fungi, and people are none of those. Well, I
have
met some people who are close to being fungi, and some who are couch potatoes.
Allen Hefner
Phila. Region SCCA Rally Steward
'77 MG Midget (#51 FSP)
'75 MG Midget (The Project)
'99 Ford Contour SE Sport (24v V6)
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