Ha ha ha..............
so, I'm now trying to figure out what I should consider my Spit......
Mistress is out, I'm definitely heterosexual.....LOL
I've just simply considered it 'transportation', but a nice one as that.
I've always thought the E-type XKE the most beautiful car ever designed.
But, looking at the many TR6's on the streets in this area, I can't see
anything 'masculine' or 'brutish' about them at all. I consider them a
square little box with no interesting form or shape at all.
Liv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
To: "'Livia Haasper'" <wilivhaasper@sympatico.ca>;
<Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:43 AM
Subject: RE: TR6 on Top Gear
> ...I just wonder why, if Spitfires are 'effeminate', so many 6 foot plus,
> 250 pound guys are driving them??...
>
> I agree - just reporting what the presenter said. Although, I would have
to
> agree with the presenter that in a direct comparison between Spitfire and
> TR6, the Spit looks delicate to the TR6's brute. But then a Jag E-type
(XKE
> to Americans) has more of a Spitfires delicacy than a TR6's brutishness,
and
> that's the most beautiful car ever (according to Enzo Ferrari, amongst
> others).
>
> Maybe the Spitfire's effeminacy is OK, because the 6', 250lb guys driving
> them can think of them as their mistress - lithe, shapely and curvy.
> Effeminacy is not the same thing as girliness, which has to be defined by
> the Ford StreetKa.
>
> Richard & Daffy
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