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Re: Intsrument Panel

To: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
Subject: Re: Intsrument Panel
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:55:04 -0400
Cc: Wiedemeyer <boxweed@thebest.net>, spridgets list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Organization: Positive Earth Drivers Club
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Reply-to: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Brad Fornal wrote:
>  I heard once that they speak English but I have the darndest time
> with some of the words on my Bentley Manual  ( "Propeller Shaft".....it's > a 
>car, not a boat or plane ;^P     

Yes but the "propeller" shaft propells the car!
Just as a propeller propells a boat (or plane)
A drive shaft does not drive the car, a "driver" does that.
The English have it correct. Well some times, I am not too sure about
wings on cars.


-- 
 Frank
"Drive it Like You Stole it"
 http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/

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