At 02:56 AM 6/3/03 -0500, Glenn Schnittke wrote:
>.... The earliest homologated car, somewhere in the world, named for an
>animal without being a deliberate misspelling (allowances for language
>differences).
At 11:22 AM 6/3/03 -0400, Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
>That would be the 1897 Mercedes.
>
>"In 1897, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, .... under the name of
>"Mercedes" after his favourite 9 year old daughter."
>
>People are animals. ....
But "Mercedes" is a proper name like Alice or George, not a type of
animal. I don't think this qualifies.
At 05:37 AM 6/3/03 -0700, Paul M. wrote:
>.... The Stutz Bearcat, which was introduced I think around 1914 or 1915..
At 12:28 PM 6/3/03 -0400, Dean T. Lake wrote:
>.... So just what is a bearcat, anyway? ;-)
At 09:58 AM 6/3/03 -0700, Max Heim wrote:
>In American colloquial usage, a bearcat is an ornery sort of shaggy wild
>cat, which does not necessarily correspond to an existing species ....
In a similar vein the North American ringtail racoon is commonly refered to
as Bearcat. While this is a sort of nickname, it does definitely refer to
a specific animal. I'd say the Stuts does qualify.
At 11:41 AM 6/3/03 -0400, Dean T. Lake wrote:
>Well then, the first was actually the Phoenix. The Phoenix is a bird that
>rises from the ashes, no? So there's your answer....for now. ;-)
The bird Phoenix is a mythological character. Kind of a stretch. Not a
real animal.
$.02, but no new guess.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude (like a Tasmanian Devil)
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