Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Absolutely NO Ferrari content (190SL Mercedes)

[ken rentiers (rentiers]

1. Enzo came to me in a dream and told me to say that!
2. My personal inventory of tweed-mobiles included a Morris Minor   
ragtop, a Zephyr Zodiac and my favorite, a Triumph I sold after it  
backfired and blew the side-draft Solex carburetor right off the  
block. I learn slow, but I remember long.
3. The devil made me say that!
4. I was generalizing, hehe....

k

also ex-Alfa

On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Alfaowner wrote:

> Ken says,"English cars require a great deal of puttering, and are  
> innocent
> of
> the laws of electricity, but they do a great job of the traditional
> wood inside...
> Japanese cars - exquisitely assembled, utterly reliable appliances.
> Toasters on wheels from the land of 15 mph."
>
> NOT ALWAYS!
>
> There was a time back in the late '80s / early '90s when my daily  
> driver was
> an '80 MGB & my wife's a bought-new Toyota Camry.  My MGB was 100%  
> reliable,
> year-round, 10,000 miles a year.  The Camry was the worst car we  
> have ever
> owned for reliability, production quality, handling and it was  
> useless in
> snow.  And, the dealer knew less about what went wrong (which was  
> often)
> than I did.  After it left us stranded in the middle of nowhere for  
> the 3rd
> time, it was traded for a Saab.
>
> We now have 2 German vehicles, 1 Italian & 1 British.  And, after  
> our Toyota
> experience, we'll never own another Toyota product.  And, likely no  
> other
> Japanese either.
>
> Norm
>
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