> I don't understand, MJ - please, without resorting to a spluttering
> rage
I fear this may push him beyond that stage.
> please explain to me why I am so far off base on this ... I need
> to know so I can quell what you all apparently feel is a growing
> sickness.
Recognising your illness is the first step ;-)
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>>><<Can we can the snide "kit car" comments this time? I just put it out for info only.>>
>>>As long as you realize that it's a kit car, I suppose I don't need to rub it in. <eg>
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>are abominations, to be sure. But this car is basically a chopped up
>and reconstituted Ferrari,
Exactly, and for what purpose? And while any chump can work a
SawZall, not every chimp can make a Ferrari.
Would you be so sanguine if the "artist" applied his same "talents" to
Botticelli's Venus, wildly slicing it apart and patching it together,
attempting to duplicate the Mona Lisa?
..."I'm going to start with Meatballs - The Movie, and, by tacking
this piece of crap here, and that dusty turd there... Et voila:
Apocalypse Now, Sort Of".
>in my mind. I don't get the hate ... let's
>all feel love for this effort. At least it can kick some goddamn a.s on
>the street, and it will sound like a Ferrari, AFAIC ...
Who knows? If it's built with all the care that went into
conceptualizing it, it may last all of 15seconds.
...And if street racing Z-28s was the plan, good riddance.
While uncommon, 288s are hardly hen's tooth rare; and for the quoted
costs of this abomination a nice one could be had; why butcher a 308
and a 328 to make something never as good? (A Porsche 930 gearbox?)
Mike, you are perfectly free to think it's cool, or nifty, or
whatever; but by posting a link to it here you invite comment, and
should expect derision.
It is an abomination, every bit as execrable as a Fierorrari or
Lamboguinea... but worse even: It pretends to Ferrari design and
engineering, and it's really just the work of old Cleetus and his gang
of wrench monkeys.
MC - 25 Feb 2004 22:32 GMT
>>>><<Can we can the snide "kit car" comments this time? I just put it out for info only.>>
>>>>As long as you realize that it's a kit car, I suppose I don't need to rub it in. <eg>
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> engineering, and it's really just the work of old Cleetus and his gang
> of wrench monkeys.
I'll never post a link to that car again. I stand chastised.
MC
Kerry for President - 26 Feb 2004 14:01 GMT
>>>I don't understand, MJ - please, without resorting to a spluttering
>>>rage, please explain to me why I am so far off base on this ... I need
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>I'll never post a link to that car again. I stand chastised.
Dude... You _asked_...