- 21. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:00:29 -0700
- Mercedes-Wannabe, Pontiac Ugly, and Kia Cheap. How about a few more? Of course there is the Ford Exploder and Chevy Suburb.
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01164.html (8,620 bytes)
- 22. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:46 -0400
- People are rarely offended by lies.... <dnw> 1972 Midget 1998 Safari 1999 9-3 1964 (Me)
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01165.html (9,106 bytes)
- 23. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:20:12 EDT
- Let's not forget the Saab Good But Ugly. I love those! Chris Eck 59 Bugeye 59 TR3A 93 Audi S4 TQ 91 Honda CB 750
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01166.html (8,542 bytes)
- 24. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:42:50 -0400
- Yes, Sweedish Automobiles Always Breakdown never held any truth for me (and I've owned around 8 over the last 15 years - everything from 200K beaters to brandy new). <dnw> 1972 Midget 1998 Safari 199
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01168.html (9,043 bytes)
- 25. Fw: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:32:31 -0400
- I'm a little older than frank but not by a whole lot... However, I can remember sitting on the front porch when I was 16 identifying the cars going past by their tail lights in the dark. Kent
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01172.html (8,701 bytes)
- 26. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:41:09 -0000
- ahhhh! so politely put! there is nothing like the sweet sound of a 2 stroke saab at full chat! chuck. a very personal opinion! lol! but did saab ever make a car after 1968? .... :)
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01173.html (8,843 bytes)
- 27. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:37:58 -0700
- Don't forget that Nova in Spanish means "no go". I hear they didn't sell many Nova's in Mexico. :-) Mike Valentine '88 Fiero GT '60 Bugeye (maybe?) ___________________________________________________
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01174.html (9,100 bytes)
- 28. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:02:46 EDT
- I think you left off Spridget Driveway Decorator..... ...there is no glory in dying for your country. The glory is in making the other guy die for his! G. Patton
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01178.html (8,813 bytes)
- 29. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:04:39 EDT
- ...even the Mercedes Starting to Look Like a Hyundai 230CES ...there is no glory in dying for your country. The glory is in making the other guy die for his! G. Patton
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01179.html (8,620 bytes)
- 30. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:29:21 -0500
- == A guy with a Fiero shouldn't throw stones. Another made-up word. Peter C
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01182.html (8,622 bytes)
- 31. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:01:38 -0700
- On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:29:21 -0500 "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com> Lighten up! Obviously the Nova wasn't named "no go".....that was a JOKE. I wasn't 'throwing stones', I was just making a funny. :
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01183.html (9,502 bytes)
- 32. Fw: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:30:26 -0700
- I'm a little older than frank but not by a whole lot... However, I can remember sitting on the front porch when I was 16 identifying the cars going past by their tail lights in the dark. Kent I can r
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01184.html (8,513 bytes)
- 33. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:46:46 EDT
- << Didn't Studebaker also have the President and the Commander? Ah, the Commander.... "Sports car flair, with value to spare" >> And the champion--which one was the low slung one that came out in 53
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01186.html (8,613 bytes)
- 34. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:49:47 -0500
-
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01192.html (8,975 bytes)
- 35. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:45:32 EDT
- << top of the line Studebaker was called >the Dictator. >> I recall reading that the Dictator line lasted until either 37 or 38 when the board of directors reckoned that Hitler was not the poster chi
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01196.html (8,424 bytes)
- 36. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:19:37 -0400
- I must really be getting old. I remember being able to tell the year, make, and model at night from either the front or the back. -- Original Message --
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01197.html (8,788 bytes)
- 37. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:26:34 -0400
- No, no, no - Coyote Ugly goes to the Aztec. """Am I the only one who wretches at the sight of Pontiacs new Vitara..what that all about? engineers on hallucinogens?.It shouldve been called the Coyote
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01198.html (8,396 bytes)
- 38. Re: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:42:04 -0400
- Someone (Kai Radicke) posted links on the MG list to a couple of the new MGs about a week or two back. I hate to say it, but my first thought was "Looks like a smaller, sleeker version of the Dodge S
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01199.html (9,567 bytes)
- 39. RE: Modern car names, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:17:59 -0700 m>
- Mr. Toyoda (Creator of Toyota) was advised by a fortune teller to start an automobile division in his loom works plant and if he named his models after something that started with the letter "C", he
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01200.html (10,054 bytes)
- 40. RE: Modern car names, NO LBC (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:17:52 -0700 m>
- It was actually a spin-off of Nissan for the international market. If it flopped they didn't want to hurt their real brand name image. After a few years of staying in bizness, they went back to their
- /html/spridgets/2001-09/msg01201.html (7,292 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu