At 5:38 AM 6/4/97 -0500, Bill Hooper wrote:
>Tradition! And disdain.
>
>The 240Z owners didn't have the emotional & physical stamina to bond with a
>GT6, so they got a creampuff that looked like one.
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>A pseudo-sports car is desired by a pseudo-sensation-seeking individual:
>It's a car which needs to be perceived as a sports car (but isn't), driven
>by a person who needs to be perceived as a sensation-seeking individual
>(but isn't).
I've heard this argument before in the sixties from Ferrari lovers when
those creampuff AC Cobras and Ford GTs met them in compitition. Those
Fords were not real Sports cars.
>From your arguments, real sports cars are dead. and the only real sports
car lovers are those who locate an ancient cranky car and devote a big
chunk of their time to keeping it on the road. Living in the past.
Remembering past glories. Guess what, those are not the same people who
purchased those cars when they were new. Those people were looking for
SS100s of MG PAs. The people purchasing our cars new were looking for the
latest neatest fun new cars, They didn't want to spend their time working
on aniques, they wanted the fun of jumping into a modern sports car and
DRIVING them.
The people who purchased Triumphs, MGs and big Healeys when new are the
same people who are now purchasing Miatas and Z3s.
WE ALL SHARE A LOVE OF DRIVING LITTLE SPORTS CARS. So why can't we just
share our loves and get along??? My newest car is a 1961 T3A. I've had the
car completely appart and 99.8% reassembled. I love the old cranky British
cars but I respect other people's right to love new roadsters that are not
British (and probably by that definition inheriently better and more
reliable).
Time passes, new traditions are forged But that does not invalidate the old
TeriAnn Wakeman For personal mail, please start subject line
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