I may be late with this entry (digest mode, and all),
but my vote is Aston Martin. The displacement, the year, and expense
suggest this is the answer to your riddle.
Where do I pick up the car? :-))))
JohnD
When a driver is on the wrong road and headed for an abyss, it's a bad
idea to "stay the course."
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <RBHouston@aol.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; <midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: British Car Trivia
> Flamboyant, Americanised, Over the Top, all words that have been
> used to describe the ------------used to describe the ------------
> evokes, you can be assured that once you driven one it will
> guarantee pleasure, a feeling of serenity, a rush of adrenalin at
> speed, and definitely turn heads wherever you go.
>
> If you want something different, yet a practical classic car for
> reliable distance motoring, then you cannot go far wrong with an ----
> -----
>
> Designed in 1947, built in and released in 1948, the ----------
> convertible was conceived to earn dollars, and the ----------- had
> it sights set firmly on the US to get them. Initial reaction in the
> States was that of trepidation, a quirky British car, certainly
> different, but what is it? The price was too high, the engine was
> too small, only 4 cylinders of 2.6 litres, the Americans wanted 6
> cylinders and lots of power in excess of their needs. The belief was
> that this was the only means of creating reliable, high mileage
> motoring on long distance freeways, with minimal mechanical problems.
>
> On the UK market the car was seen as too excessive for British
> tastes, too big and too expensive, both to buy and to run. At 22
> mpg, fuel rationing, and new cars in any event being limited to the
> privelaged, this brave new model was not off to a good start.
> "What car was this"???
>
>
> Robert Houston
> Texan in NM
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