Tom Boltwood > wrote in message >...
> > From: Colonel Tupperware >
> > Newsgroups: alt.autos.alfa-romeo
> > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:21:19 +0100
> > Subject: Alfa 164 make me an offer
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:37:40 +0100, Tom Boltwood >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Colonel Tupperware >
> >>> Newsgroups: alt.autos.alfa-romeo
> >>> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:33:55 +0100
> >>> Subject: Alfa 164 make me an offer
> >>>
> >>> On 24 Jun 2004 01:56:36 -0700, (Steve A)
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have just brought a 166 and my old 164 TS has to go. It is a J reg
> >>>> with 6 months MOT left on it. It has 133K on the clock. Is a good
> >>>> runner for the age but need one or two bit and pieces sorting.
> >>>>
> >>> It would seem that giving them away is the only method of disposing of
> >>> these cars.
> >>>
> >>> Can they really be such a POS that they are worth nothing at all?
> >>> Mine seems a decent enough car even if it is Italian. It must be worth
> >>> something, but all I get is laughter when offering it for sale.
> >>>
> >> Most people don't know a good thing when they see it. IME most people are
> >> exceptionally thick and generously equipped with a herd mentality.
> >
> > I'll go along with this little herd and agree whole heartedly with
> > those sentiments.
>
> When I bought my car, I had nothing but stick from my mates for buying an an
> unreliable Italian rustbucket. It cost me a tenth of what some of my mates
> cars cost them, is faster and better handling than all of them, better
> equipped than most of them, doesn't have a spot of rust and hasn't had a
> single problem since I bought it two years ago. Yet still they think I'm an
> idiot for buying it.

LOTS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY OWN THE BEST CARS ON THE ROAD.
Many have little minds, and couldn't change a fuse, or know when it
had blown. And they buy Corsa's or fiesta's or even Mondeo's which
break back panels and blow around in the wind. I'm sure you have seen
them on the roads.
Just ask them two questions, Who had the first twin cam engine, Alfa
from Italy, Or was it Ford, Rover, Vauxhall, or any other British made
car, and in which year? I think they might be lost for answers.
Whitbread brewery in the UK. used to have a saying on an advert as
follows,
There are those that know's, There are those that don't know's, Then
there are those that think they know's but don't know's.
I think you will find that the people who call Alfa's, Fiat, Lancia,
have never been within two feet of the car they are shouting about,
let alone drive one.
And think, if they spout off maybe people will think they know what
they are talking about, Not me, I'm the brick wall they are talking
to.
John, UK.