My comments: Very Lyrical!

Stan

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 08:41:56 -0700 pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
writes:
> The wilder side said...
>
> I can remember the Isetta, Citroen w/sardine can top, Morris Minor,
> Sunbeam, Triumph, Healey, Lotus, Bug Eye Sprites, get this one Facel
> Vega
> (Chrysler Hemi powered), Cooper, Mini Cooper, Morgan,
> Messerschmidt,
> Lancia, XKE Jags, Fiat, Sunbeam, Volvo, Borgward, Saab, Reneau,
> Crosley,
> Henry J, Nash Metropolitan and of course VWs, Mersedes, BMWs,
> Bentleys,
> MGs, Jeepsters and if I press myself I'll come up with a few more.
>
> Morris Manure?,  Price a woodie today...aargh.  Facel Vega was
> beautiful.
> But Iso Grifo held the cards until the 400CID joint venture
> "greyhound"
> FWIW it's Renault, also called  Degaulle-stone.  My bud at SJ Honda
> had a
> beautiful orange Miura
>
> So Armstrong-Siddley, Austin A40, Abarth-Zagato (the real double
> bubble),
> FIAT did launder a few 850 Abarths but not many.  My boss Larry Lopp
> had one
> with a 1000cc AZ motor.  Pain in the arse for maintenance parts a
> princely
> sum.  David Browns tractor powered Aston-Martins and the venerable
> DBS's
> mmmm..
> Now names like Tipo 61/64, Sebring, Merak, Bora bring to mind
> visions of
> sugarplums.  A now extinct marque that at one time teamed up wth
> Citroen
>  the original lemon ) to bring you the stunning CSM, and then with
> Chrysler
> to do the little convertible with the Maser six.  DeTomaso and his
> mangustas
> and panteras...fine hybrids.  Many more but the king snake of all
> was Good
> Ol' Boy Carroll Shelby's Daytona Cobra Coupe.  One sat on display in
> a Ford
> dealer in Denver for a while.  Not for sale.  The dash had a little
> orange
> light on it that said underneath in Dymo tape, "Stall Indicator"  A
> fine
> play on words, I thought.  That ugly Griffin/TVR was a handfull and
> the
> 260cid  Supercharged Alpine was a real tiger.   I met Carroll at a
> little
> gathering of the faithful in Terlingua TX and got a ride in a factory
> GT40
> that was to be set up for Dan Gurney.   The alfas I loved were the
> sleeper
> TI-Super (1600cc Autodelta motor), the classic Bertone GTV/GTA, the
> TZ
> racing car and the "disco volante" Giulia SS.  All way beyond my
> means then
> and even moreso now.  And the men who made and raced em....Harry
> Weslake,
> SMB Hailwood,OBE, John Surtees, Jimmy Clark, Ritchie Ginther,
> Merling Sauce,
> ACB Chapman... the roll call echoes the sound and the fury...
>
> My two favorites of all time are of course from Modena, the Lusso,
> and the
> Dino GTS.  I had a short love affair with a Mondial a couple of
> years ago.
>
> very late for Friday.
>
> p (lusting after the past)
>
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