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"the guvnor" > wrote in message ... > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:51:32 -0500, "Joel Jacobs" > > wrote: > >>>>>10% import duty?? >>>> >>>>Those socialist amerikaners have a funny slant on things, don't they. >>> >>> Note how Europeans are free to import any car (not that anyone does) >>> but Americans cannot import any car they choose... >> >>Who the hell in his/her right mind would import most US cars into Europe? > > It's a choice thing. > >>I've lived in Europe off an on for the past 25 years, so you "ain't" >>talking >>with the "average" Yank. > > Fair enough. > >>There are many Euro cars we don't import here into the US. Getting spares >>for a Renault, TVR, Peugeot, even Fiats do not make it sensible to do so. >>And then, finding a tech to work on them is another story entirely as >>well. > > The differance is that you *can't* import them, at least not for road > use. > >>In Europe I found ONE guy who could do the diagnostics on a Corvette while >>living in Southern Italy and he had the equipment to work on them because >>he >>owned both a ZR-1, and a convertible. > > People in Europe have long forggoten how pushrod engines work? > And that oil is supposed to stay inside the engine, and electrics are supposed to work for more than a week. Al |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:00:00 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote: >>>>>>>Most I know shun all things European. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Quality always costs more... >>>>> >>>>>How would you know? >>>> >>>> >>>>Because I'm a quality European surrounded by quality things, innit. >>> >>>Sure - quality rusted auto parts, innit. >> >> >> How could rusted ones be quality?? > >I don't know, but you said you are surrounded by european quality. Quality European cars don't rust. |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:12:44 -0700, Arista Sandoval >
wrote: >In article >, the guvnor > wrote: > >> Those nasty Israelis will blow up anything that moves > >Is that some of that quality European anti-Semitism? How is it anti-semitic????? |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:25:51 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote: >> "But no; our fate is in the hands of a people whose IQ is generally >> smaller than their waistbands. A people who’ve trawled their 263m >> citizens and come up with Bush and super-chin as the alternatives. A >> people whose soldiers wear sunglasses while trying to defuse trouble >> on the streets of Baghdad. You’re not Jean-Claude Van Damme, you >> idiots. Take them off. Let them see your eyes. Or are you like the >> president? Do you only have one?" >> >> "As a sort of protest about everything, but the sunglasses thing most >> of all, my wife recently decided to purge everything American from the >> house." >> >> "At first, I suspected this would be a long and painful task that >> would send us back to the Dark Ages, but do you know what? Most of the >> electrical equipment is from Japan, or Germany. The furniture is >> largely Italian or British. And pretty well everything else was made >> in China." >> >> "It’s billed, like all previous Vettes, as a sports car to rival the >> best from Europe, and I hope you don’t mind if I s****** politely at >> this point." >> >> "America has never really made a sports car, because while we were >> hanging it out to dry on Welsh moorland roads, or Alpine passes, they >> were racing between the lights on Telegraph Road. And for that, you >> don’t need a pin-sharp turn-in. You need muscle." >> >> "And that, contrary to what you may have been told, is what the >> Vette’s always been about: it’s a car so pumped up on steroids, it >> would be unable to make a drugs test without falling off its >> motorcycle. It’s a car with arms like Schwarzenegger but a penis like >> a shrivelled-up little acorn." >> >> "And so we arrive at the C6, expecting more of the same. It’s still >> plastic. It’s still made in Kentucky. It still has the big V8. And — >> stop laughing at the back — it still comes with exactly the same sort >> of suspension that you get on a Silvercross pram. Yup. It has leaf >> springs, which means it still rides like it’s running on wooden >> tyres." >> >> "Of course, 14th-century suspension has no bearing in the way the car >> goes. What does have a bearing is the gearbox." >> >> "Put your foot down and after a hint of wheelspin — and with tyres the >> width of a tennis court, it is only a hint — the bruiser launches off >> the line with what might fairly be termed much gusto. And then, at >> around 30, everything goes horribly wrong because you have to select >> second." >> >> "There are levers at the National Coal Mining Museum that move with >> more smoothness than the gearshifter in a C6 Vette. To get second from >> third, you really need a second elbow. " >> >> "Happily, you’re distracted from this most of the time by the HUD. I’m >> not joking. This car has a head-up display, just like you get in an >> F-16 fighter." >> >> "It’s fantastic. Whole bus queues are hidden behind the digital speed >> read-out, which is going to make for some wonderful insurance claims. >> “The old lady was behind my rev counter so I never saw here until >> she’d already bounced over the roof.”" >> >> http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...5587_2,00.html > >The next generation of American muscle car will be the Ford Jaguar. See how we English come to your rescue everytime... |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:59:01 -0400, ZombyWoof > wrote: >> >No ****, look at what both Japan & Germany became after being bombed >into oblivion. Brand new factories, while we are still stuck with the >ones that were cranking out the WW II war machine. Which is exactly why I'd like to buy an island and set up a missile site to aim at the USA. Doesn't need an armed missile, or even a fueled one. Then, I'd declare war.... followed by an immediate surrender and request for billions in foreign aid to rebuild my "country"..... : ) Construct some nice beach areas, a big casino hotel, a small airport and a harbor and marina.... LOL (Investors wanted... Inquire within... : ) Hey! Spikey Likes IT! 1965 Ford Mustang fastback 2+2 A Code 289 C4 Trac-Lok Vintage Burgundy w/Black Standard Interior Vintage 40 Wheels 16X8" w/BF Goodrich Comp T/A Radial 225/50ZR16 |
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>>> "It's billed, like all previous Vettes, as a sports car to rival the
>>> best from Europe, and I hope you don't mind if I s****** politely at >>> this point." Get a little choked on your s****** there as the Corvette just wont 1&2 in Class at LeMans, and 5&6 overall? Oh, say it isn't so! Say it isn't so! Alas, child, 'tis true. |
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Did both a long time ago.
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:55:36 -0500, William Claude Dukenfield <William Claude > wrote: >On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:38:32 -0700, Spike > wrote: >>Which is exactly why I'd like to buy an island and set up a missile >>site to aim at the USA. Doesn't need an armed missile, or even a >>fueled one. Then, I'd declare war.... followed by an immediate >>surrender and request for billions in foreign aid to rebuild my >>"country"..... : ) Construct some nice beach areas, a big casino >>hotel, a small airport and a harbor and marina.... LOL > >Go watch (or better read) "The Mouse That Roared". Hey! Spikey Likes IT! 1965 Ford Mustang fastback 2+2 A Code 289 C4 Trac-Lok Vintage Burgundy w/Black Standard Interior Vintage 40 Wheels 16X8" w/BF Goodrich Comp T/A Radial 225/50ZR16 |
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the guvnor wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:37 -0400, Sarah Czepiel > > wrote: > > > >>You may be retired from the USN but you're an idiot. What were you a >>Yeoman or a Boatswain's Mate? You don't know anything about nuclear >>deterrent and it sounds like you really should stick to worrying about >>setting your Sea and Anchor detail and leaving the details of global >>strategic defense to the experts. > > > Ugly Sarah, a stay at home *old* housewife pretending that she knows > more about the navy at than someone who was in it?? She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:34:19 GMT, rw >
wrote: >the guvnor wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:37 -0400, Sarah Czepiel > >> wrote: >> >> >> >>>You may be retired from the USN but you're an idiot. What were you a >>>Yeoman or a Boatswain's Mate? You don't know anything about nuclear >>>deterrent and it sounds like you really should stick to worrying about >>>setting your Sea and Anchor detail and leaving the details of global >>>strategic defense to the experts. >> >> >> Ugly Sarah, a stay at home *old* housewife pretending that she knows >> more about the navy at than someone who was in it?? > >She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. Thanks for demonstrating that neither of you two angry juveniles have any intelligent remarks to contribute. |
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Sarah Czepiel wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:34:19 GMT, rw > > wrote: >> >>She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. > > > Thanks for demonstrating that neither of you two angry juveniles have > any intelligent remarks to contribute. I'm 58 (hardly a juvenile) and I'm not angry, but I'm amused by people like you. Watching someone so uninformed and so jingoistic and so -- let's face it -- ignorant and dim, make an absolute fool of themselves is entertaining in a car-wreck-on-the-side-of-the-road kind of way. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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