Andrew Mace wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Kai Radicke wrote:
>
> > I drove my TR6 to school today, top down of course, and I can't tell you how
> > many comments I got today in school...
> > Most of the comments were of a "kind" nature, lying in the spectrum between
> > "it is so tiny" to "it is so loud" or "what was that cute car you were
> > driving?" And then I had to deal with the teasing from the GreaseMonkey
> > crowd... which was ignored in standard fashion.
> > I do agree that there isn't much interest in the High School / College crowd
> > with these automobiles. They would rather drive their pimped-out Hondas
> > with earthquake inducing stereo systems....
>
> Wow, the more things change, the more they stay the same....
>
> In my high school in the late 1960s, it was about the same. I had a
> Herald, a couple of friends had MG-TDs (yeah, they weren't THAT expensive
> again back then), and there were a couple TRs and MGBs. Pretty much
> everyone else at the time either had what dad/mom bought for or gave to
> them, or else it was the '55-6-7 Chevy, early Mustang, etc. kind of
> crowd. (There was always someone rich enough to have, say, a brand new
> Boss 302 Mustang, but that was the exception.)
>
> Carwise, these crowds pretty much stayed to themselves. Like now, apparently!
>
> --Andy
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The words "Sports-Car" was not in the dictionary when I went to school, a
few teachers parked their cars in the fields, I have no idea what "Talk
in The Parking Lot", even means. Hasn't anyone ever heard of "Henry's
Model A", very, very popular high school car. "FT".
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