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1. Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Mere); Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:28:33 -0500; I have been following the thread on LBC and other vehicle names. There seems to be a feeling that a lot of LBC names don't exactly have a macho connotation. Vehicle model names are a hobby of mine an; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00468.html (9,009 bytes)
2. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net>; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:29:33 -0800; Absolutely! Spitfire, named after some clapped out airplane. Jaguar. Jaguar? WHo on earth would want a car named after a kitty cat? Real names! Tough names! Manly names! American Names! Nothing says; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00488.html (8,275 bytes)
3. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:49:56 -0500 (EST); Well, you've unintentionally proved the point. The Cricket was, if I am not sorely mistaken, sold by Chrysler, not AMC, and it was a british car. Don't know who was to blame for the name. Ray Gibbons; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00489.html (8,415 bytes)
4. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: GOFASTMG@aol.com; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:26:16 -0500 (EST); << Nothing says TOUGH like the AMC Cricket. I don't know, the Dodge Neon sounds really bad to me; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00500.html (8,108 bytes)
5. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Len Bugel <bugel@bianca.sms.k12.vt.us>; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:29:52 -0600 (CST); The Neon belongs in the 'Nobility' category :-) Len Bugel; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00515.html (8,491 bytes)
6. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net>; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:18:31 -0800; I must confess, I rather like their goofy ads and the name. I get really tired of all the "tough" names, especially the backwards looking ones. I know what a LeMans was, and it wasn't this little ti; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00516.html (9,484 bytes)
7. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@monmouth.com>; Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 19:31:37 -0500; Jaguar? WHo on I think the Swallow Sidecar Co. had a problem with the name SS during the war. (SS was not super sport like in the U.S., the German meaning was felt in Britain) so they changed their n; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00521.html (8,296 bytes)
8. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com (David C Littlefield); Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:16:08 EST; On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:18:31 -0800 nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net> I'm sure you would be relieved to learn that Chrysler was originally going to call the Concorde (or was it the Cirrus?) a "300; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00540.html (9,281 bytes)
9. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: RJohn50603@aol.com; Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:36:38 -0500 (EST); << Absolutely! Spitfire, named after some clapped out airplane. Jaguar. Jaguar? Who on earth would want a car named after a kitty cat? Yea, hard to imagine. R. Johnson - Dallas '90 Maine Coon '79 mid; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00542.html (8,827 bytes)
10. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:27:47 -0500; I still like the Fairthorpe Electron Minor.; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00559.html (8,958 bytes)
11. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: "William L. Singleton" <singleton@ccsu.edu>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:53:10 -0500; To which R. Johnson replies: ...list of other possessions deleted... I've heard of the DiTomasso Pantera, the Sunbeam Tiger, the Mercury Lynx and Cougar and even the Bobcat (think small construction; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00575.html (9,483 bytes)
12. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:58:09 -0800; 300E? Never heard of it. Is that like a 300z? :-); /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00577.html (8,967 bytes)
13. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@monmouth.com>; Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 13:53:40 -0500; credit for teaching I don't want credit, I want education. Please buy the tape! I know, I am getting to be a pain. Mike; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00602.html (8,356 bytes)
14. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:10:02 -0800; another. like a Nolan, Can you say Cosworth? I knew that you could. Don't pooh-pooh LBC 4 bangers till you take a Super-7 out and blow the proverbial doors of that same kid in the Nova on the straigh; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00609.html (9,779 bytes)
15. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com (David C Littlefield); Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:48:55 EST; On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:58:09 -0800 nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net> See what I mean? No name recognition:-) Actually, some on this list older than I may remember the "300" series of Chryslers th; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00628.html (9,426 bytes)
16. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: TheSkinny@aol.com; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:21:39 -0500 (EST); The Cricket was a Plymoth. It came in a 4 door and was built by the Rootes Group, which was owned by Chrysler in its final days. It was imported to compete with the Japanese cars in the mid-70's. An; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00632.html (9,595 bytes)
17. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Geoff Love <engconn@infi.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:59:22 -0500; I hope the references to the names "Spitfire" as a "clapped out airplane" (sic), and the "Jaguar" as a "kitty cat" were meant to be funny, and not born out of abysmal ignorance. Had it not been for S; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00633.html (10,843 bytes)
18. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: homestay@infolearn.com.au (Syl's Sydney Homestay); Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:30:02 +1100 (EST); G'day Geoff You've flown a Spitfire? What can I say - you're nothing short of a hero in my book. My Dad was mostly in Tobruk during the war, where he got seriously wounded, but he spent some time in; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00639.html (9,764 bytes)
19. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: nolan penney <npenney@concentric.net>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:16:02 -0800; Oh I'm not pooh-poohing little four bangers, or big four bangers. I've got one now that will hit 60 mph from a standstill before you can scream "oh S**! True, it is a motorcycle a little 3 banger up; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00647.html (9,618 bytes)
20. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Geoff Love <engconn@infi.net>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:42:54 -0500; G'Day Paul, Hi,R Johnson. I have to get one thing clear this very instant. I am no hero, much as I would like to have been. I never flew in WW2, as I was only 4 years old at the outbreak. Because I w; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00651.html (12,298 bytes)

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