Hell you can buy a cheap
Firebird that can run with the Subaru.


Yeah? Cut the HP of the WRX by 50 and the Firebird still loses because it can't
handle worth a damn. The WRX goes through the Slalom faster than a new Vette
and the Vette is no slouch...just cheaply made.

RB

Just Taylor wrote in
:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 04:55:25 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

(SAIL LOCO) wrote in
:

So the McLaren is faster, but the Bugatti beats them both.

This is fun since your so slow. How many grades did you repeat in
grammer school. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE BUGATTI WILL DO.

I see, and you have driven how many of these beasts?

What's next? My pee-pee is bigger than everyone's?

I think they did that last week, actually.

If it was I suppose
they wouldn't be bragging about their AMC Pacer's so much. Besides,
what is faster? A McLaren doing 65MPH or a Bugatti doing 65MPH? 55MPH
in Ohio of course.

Of course!
Citroen used to have an ad stating that their 2CV was faster than a Ferrari
(that was stuck behind it on a narrow road)


Bertie

SAIL LOCO wrote:
LOL........... I told you you were living in the past.

In the mid-60s engineers 3 years out of school easily earned over
$10,000/yr. A nicely furnished apt fronting on a heated pool, with
carport, cost $85/mo utilities included, or buy a new house for a year's
pay. MGBs cost $2995, a well appointed vette $3500, XKEs or Cobras (the
real ones) $5000 and Ferraris $10 to 12,500 depending on model. Gas was
two bits a gallon and Jet Setters were whining that the "American
peasant" had had it too good for too long!!

Don't like sport cars? Fine. You could buy a Renault Dauphin, a nice
little 4dr that seated 4 in comfort and got 35MPG, for $1600 or a well
optioned US V8 for $2500. A '68 HO GTO could just pick its left front
tire off the ground headed for a 12-second 1/4 mile, and it cost under
$4000! Of course it'd only do 130 but ...

Now we got cars that go over 200, but they cost over $200,000 too, and I
don't know many "American peasants" in their mid-20s who can afford one.
Ain't progress grand?

I see, and you have driven how many of these beasts?

Well Bud if I posted "nobody knows" that means neither I nor anyone else has
driven one. AND I don't think I ever suggested that I did anyway.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

Well Bud if I posted "nobody knows" that means neither I nor anyone else has
driven one.

I've driven the late model Vette, WRX and WRX STI, NSX and quite a few late
model sports cars.
Loco has driven the Lincoln which can't match a Subaru, even though it's a
"sports sedan."

RB

Ask anybody over 18 which one they would rather own. The LS won't beat a 55
Chevy street rod either. It's not the point and you know it or ugh do you.

I'll take a loaded STI over the Lincoln ANYDAY. If I'm going to drive long
distance, I'll take an Audi A6, another car built better than the lincoln.
AWD cars rule.

RB

On 19 Aug 2003 17:09:20 GMT, a team of surgeons from alt.sailing.asa
removed the following benign growth from Bobsprit:

Ask anybody over 18 which one they would rather own. The LS won't beat a 55
Chevy street rod either. It's not the point and you know it or ugh do you.

I'll take a loaded STI over the Lincoln ANYDAY. If I'm going to drive long
distance, I'll take an Audi A6, another car built better than the lincoln.
AWD cars rule.

This is a sailing group. Take your off-topic cars **** elsewhere.

--
PJR :-)
mhm34x8

"Capt. Mooron" wrote ...
I love that Saturn Vue.

me too, you can see the back of Uranus from there.

Scotty

only if you're driving a truck.

"Just Taylor" wrote ...
55MPH in Ohio of course.


--
Taylor

Vito wrote in :

SAIL LOCO wrote:
LOL........... I told you you were living in the past.

In the mid-60s engineers 3 years out of school easily earned over
$10,000/yr. A nicely furnished apt fronting on a heated pool, with
carport, cost $85/mo utilities included, or buy a new house for a year's
pay. MGBs cost $2995, a well appointed vette $3500, XKEs or Cobras (the
real ones) $5000 and Ferraris $10 to 12,500 depending on model. Gas was
two bits a gallon and Jet Setters were whining that the "American
peasant" had had it too good for too long!!

Don't like sport cars? Fine. You could buy a Renault Dauphin, a nice
little 4dr that seated 4 in comfort and got 35MPG, for $1600 or a well
optioned US V8 for $2500. A '68 HO GTO could just pick its left front
tire off the ground headed for a 12-second 1/4 mile, and it cost under
$4000! Of course it'd only do 130 but ...

Now we got cars that go over 200, but they cost over $200,000 too, and I
don't know many "American peasants" in their mid-20s who can afford one.
Ain't progress grand?

there were cars thsat would do almost 200 mph back then and they cost the
rough equivelant of 200 grand back then.

BTW, I ws offered a 375 MM for a bit over 5,000 dollars once!

Bertei