Mystery Car

[Rocky]

At the gas station. Really turned my head. For $180k I guess it should. Aston-Martin.

[ishmael]

What makes such a lump of steel worth ten times it's Toyatarama cousin?

"Nice suit, was it expensive?"

"Nice usually is."

Kojak

[Rocky]

http://www.fantasycars.com/Aston_Martin_DB7/Aston_Martin__DB7_Photos/aston_m artin__db7_photos.html (http://www.fantasycars.com/Aston_Martin_DB7/Aston_Martin__DB7_Photos/aston_martin__db7_photos.html)

[ 02-26-2003, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: Rocky ]

[John Bell]

What makes a hand built, custom mahoghany Riva runabout worth ten times it's Bayliner cousin? ;)

[ 02-26-2003, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: John Bell ]

[Nicholas Carey]

Not the quality British engineering of the Aston-Martin.

Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?

A. Lucas refrigerators. :D

--
"Lucas: Prince of Darkness"

[Ian G Wright]

Originally posted by Nicholas Carey:


Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?

A. Lucas refrigerators. :D

--
"Lucas: Prince of Darkness""America: Home of the cliche."

Lucas have never made refridgerators, but they have provided lots of electronics for US aerospace industries.

IanW, smile.gif

[cs]

Nice car Rocky, but for a little more I can have this:

http://www.lamborghini.co.uk/images/random/murcielagofooter.jpg

But alas I will not have either. :(

Chad

[rbgarr]

The other night my wife and I went to another couple's house for dinner. I noticed there was a mid-90's Jaguar parked along the road in front of the house. I supposed it belonged to some people we didn't know at the party. The couple turned out to be kind of brash, but (I thought) bearable. After we all said our goodnights and thank yous at the door we walked to our cars. We were walking by as the Jaguar-driving couple got in their car. My wife waved gaily and said, "So nice to meet you... and I love your Camaro!" They were a bit stunned, it seemed to me, and I had to keep myself from laughing. When we got in our car, I mentioned that the car wasn't what she thought, and she looked at me and said "I know that, you dummy, but they were such total asses!!"

[Otter]

As a former owner of British cars I can truly say, that cliché or not, Lucas electrics weren't on par with just about anyone else. I would buy starting coils by the pair.

True story. While in a hotel in Stuttgart Germany I met a British gentleman in the bar and we struck up a conversation. I asked him what he did and he said he worked for Lucas. We exchanged the usual jokes and he was good-natured enough to laugh. He then told me this; It turns out that Mercedes Benz had baught a rather large machine from Lucas for one of their engine plants. Being the clever Swabians that they are, the Germans insisted on a service agreement that a tech from Lucas would come to Stuttgart to fix it if it ever went wrong. According to him, this was his last stay in the hotel because Lucas had told him to find an apartment there. :eek:

Not to flog a dead horse I'm sure that had we inflicted the wonders of AMC and Chrysler engineering of the 70s on the British they would have managed to come up with a few good one-liners themselves. ;)

Lucas has apparently done good work in bettering its image and I believe supplies the electrics for the BMW roadsters.

[Rocky]

That's cruel! Someone did that to my buddy on his old Norton one day. "Wow!" this young kid said. "That looks just like one of those old Yamahas!" But he meant it.

I had a thing for the old XJS for a while, you could get them really cheap, but I found out why when I talked to a guy who specialized in old British cars. This is a classic British story:

In 1986 the man who ran the machine at the Jaguar plant that cut the openings in the block for the crankshaft retired. Seems the machine had been out of whack for 20 years, and the old guy was the only man on earth who could make it run right, so they never bothered to replace it. Virtually every Jaguar made between 1986 and 1989 had misaligned crankshafts, and eventually they blew their oil seals. Plus the AC was used to cool the fuel, so if the AC line leaked you had freon burning in the cylinders. The result? Mustard gas coming out the tailpipe, the same stuff used by the Germans in WWI, which turned to hydrochloric acid in your lungs. To replace the rear brake pads you had to drop the entire rear axle asembly. That was enough for me.

"A gentleman does not drive after dark." In Lucas' defense I never had any electrical problems on my Norton at all. What is that, Chad?

[ 02-27-2003, 04:53 PM: Message edited by: Rocky ]

[swamp_yankee]

Originally posted by rbgarr:
The other night my wife and I went to another couple's house for dinner. I noticed there was a mid-90's Jaguar parked along the road in front of the house. I supposed it belonged to some people we didn't know at the party. The couple turned out to be kind of brash, but (I thought) bearable. After we all said our goodnights and thank yous at the door we walked to our cars. We were walking by as the Jaguar-driving couple got in their car. My wife waved gaily and said, "So nice to meet you... and I love your Camaro!" They were a bit stunned, it seemed to me, and I had to keep myself from laughing. When we got in our car, I mentioned that the car wasn't what she thought, and she looked at me and said "I know that, you dummy, but they were such total asses!!"She sounds like a keeper! :D

[Henning 4148]

An old nasty joke

Lucas - the inventors of fully electrified darkness

The Aston certainly is yummy - just can't figure out how to afford one.

[ 02-27-2003, 03:17 PM: Message edited by: Henning 4148 ]

[swamp_yankee]

Originally posted by Rocky:
That's cruel! Someone did that to my buddy on his old Norton one day. "Wow!" this young kid said. "That looks just like one of those old Yamahas!" But he meant it.
I would've chain whipped the litle punk to w/in an inch of his life! :mad:

I had a neighbor w/ a '69 Commando - sweet sled!

[Rocky]

Yeah but its time has passed. My Victory runs circles around it.

[Shang]

It ain't much, but it gets me to the Seven-Eleven and back...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/pb191fba92d39e8e2dd0a53bd929b39cd/fc936444.jpg

[cs]

Rocky, that is the Lamborghini Diablo 6.0

Chad

[John Bell]

Sorry to correct you, Chad. Rocky, it's actually a Lamborghini Murcielago.

I read a road test where a guy got to drive one around town for a few days. He said that he might as well have been driving a UFO for all the attention it got. People would run stop lights staring so hard at it. They'd follow for miles just to listen to the exhaust note. They'd follow him home. Owing one would be a terrible burden I'd think.

[cs]

I stand corrected. I assumed that it was the Diablo, but you know what they say about assumptions.

BTW John if I had that kinda cake I would drive one. And they would be more than welcome to follow me for miles, if they could keep up. :D

Chad

[Rocky]

The A-M was big, though, looked like a car you could drive every day, and actually get into. Very understated. Prettiest car I've ever seen.

[ 02-27-2003, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: Rocky ]

[swamp_yankee]

Originally posted by Shang:
It ain't much, but it gets me to the Seven-Eleven and back...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/pb191fba92d39e8e2dd0a53bd929b39cd/fc936444.jpgYep, looks like it could pass everything on the road except a gas station! :D

"Just fill 'er up with testosterone, attendant!"