What story? I wanna read that one! Jes' love Kurt Vonnegut!
BTW - Frascati is an Italian dry white wine that was popular
over here in the late 60's.
chuck
Patricia Sauthoff wrote:
> Ok my little car buffs, maybe one of you can help me out with this. I was
> reading a short story by Kurt Vonnegut that was published in 1954 and both
> MG's and a car called a Marittima-Frascati are mentioned. I've got a few
> questions about this. 1. What kind of MG might he be talking about? A TD
> perhaps? It can't be an A (IMHO) because it was described as boxy, and I
> can't imagine anyone describing an A that way. That leads to question 2.
> When did the A's go into production? And 3. What on earth is a
> Marittima-Frascati? All the Internet has provided so far is a list of
> Italian travel sites. In the story he talks about Avignon, so it seems
> strange that he would make up this one car. Also in the story there are
> only about 12 of them in the US, which, as far as I know, was rather common
> at the time.
>
> If anyone could provide any insight into this I would be extremely grateful,
> and will be amazed by your extensive knowledge.
> Thanks all
>
> Patricia
> '59 Bugeye
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