It's been written somewhere that an early MG advert on signs was
"Faster Than Most", to which witty chldren added "bicycles".
"Safety Fast" replaced the unfortunate original wording.
BTW--someone recently used "Safety-Fast" in a magazine advert. Ford,
I recall, but I've seen it only once.
Bob
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:28:21 EST WSpohn4@aol.com writes:
> Friend has a Fiat 600 like that once. You could hunch over the wheel,
> gripping it for all you were worth, foot trying to push the
> accelerator through the floor, doing your most impassioned imitation
of Nuvolari, and the
> best thing about it is that no one around you in traffic would ever
> notice.....
>
> Bill
>
>
> In a message dated 1/14/2008 12:19:39 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> doddk@mossmotors.com writes:
>
> Hmm. My immediate thought was that you could achieve cruise control
> in an MG TD by just putting a brick on the throttle pedal.
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