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Re: Morris vs British Leyland

To: boxweed@thebest.net
Subject: Re: Morris vs British Leyland
From: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:04:19 GMT
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Reply-to: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Then lets not forget how the ford mustang was conceived.
The car for the young upwardly mobile american woman.
Andy

>From: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
>Reply-To: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
>To: <Herb_Goede@amsinc.com>
>CC: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Morris vs British Leyland
>Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:20:05 -0400
>
>Oh, yeah; one more thing about bugeyes.  Everyone knows that they were
>really " girls' " cars!!!  (kind of like a VW Cabriolet is today)  Give me 
>a
>"manly Midget" any day!
>
>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com <Herb_Goede@amsinc.com>
>To: Wiedemeyer <boxweed@thebest.net>
>Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:23 PM
>Subject: Re: Morris vs British Leyland
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >    Oh, c'mon!!  Everyone knows that the Bugeye was just a poor excuse of 
>a
> >    prototype for the Midget! -- I mean, who could ever really take 
>serious
> >a
> >    car with no trunk lid and no way to store a muddy flat tire other 
>than
> >    dragging it across the seats to stow in a dark boot?!  And the
> >    headlights! ---- Did they forget about them when they were designing
> >the
> >    car, then add them as an afterthought?
> >
> >Why yes they did!  And what's up with those rear wheel arches? You can
> >definitely tell the two ends were designed by different groups.
> >
> >With sprites (and their gaudy midget clones)just like the Jag E-type, the
> >Ford T-bird, the Dodge Daytona, the Ford Mustang..... later models are
> >never quite as good as the original.
> >
> >Fire when ready.
> >
> >Herb G.
> >AN5
> >
>



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