Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:45:16 -0000 From: SkodaPilot <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> Subject: Re: Any thoughts on safety?
In article <BA158B86.1BB3%pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk>, pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk says... > in article MPG.1859683e22c8ea92989f7fnopsam.cis.dfn.de, SkodaPilot at > carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com wrote on 05/12/2002 13:42: > > > In article <47cd173a.0212040302.47257184nopsaming.google.com>, > > peter.hamptonnopsambm.com says... > >> If I were you I'd mention to you son that he is very lucky to be able > >> to drive at all at 15. Here in the UK, you have to be 18 and pass a 2 > >> part driving test. As for him not wanting you Saab...does the boy have > >> no class....Obviously any Saab is far more cool and some god awful > >> Oldsmobile. Fortunatly, they don't sell these or virtually any other > >> American car here in the UK as they are seem as far to large ( car and > >> engine ), thirsty, poorly made and a bit cheesy. > > Actually it is 17 and a 2 part test, but Im not splitting hairs. > > > > Agreed he should be grateful of a Saab. In the UK, a Saab 900 is a > > biggish car, and for a 17 year old, mummy and daddy would have to help > > out to get decent insurance for him her, but I agree about cheesy > > american cars. > > The first car that I insured under my own name was a 900 T8. I was 25 > though. Wish I had thought of doing that, Saabs, Skodas and Porsches have always been cars I loved. When I passed at 33, I didn't think to even look at what a Saab would cost to insure, never mind buy, and so started my skoda obsession, and my first two cars, an Estelle bought for £90 that I must have spent nearly £1000 on including 5 new tyres (£200) but still looked as rough as a bears arse, and my Favorit which I bought for £80, but needed about £350 to get it fully roadworthy and functional + £700 on the backbox, speakers, CD player, bucket seats sports steering wheel, gear knob, and pedal covers. For what I have spent, I could have gotten a nice T16, and modded it well (and worth modding). Or I could have gotten and old dog, and been put off for life. > > Sometimes I do quite > > fancy a Pontiac Grand Prix 450. Such a pimp mobile it is stunning, and > > rarely seen over here. > > There's a fair smattering of Trans Am's and Firebirds in my village. Oh, and > a Caddy! The Grand Prix was wider and longer than a Trans-AM, one I used to see was Electric Blue with a white vinyl roof, and porthole side windows for the rear seats (looked standard), with 2 doors. Real pimps Coupe. > > > >> Whack in a large stereo, some tasteful alloy wheels and hey > >> presto...instant Stig Slomqvist ( Swedish Rally Ace from the Sixties ) > >> > > > > Did you mean Stig Blomqvist? > > http://home.bip.net/anders.jensen/sid_blomqvist.htm > > The man with the taste to drive both Saab and Skoda cars in competition, > > and the luck to drive the Lancia Stratos, and Audi Quattro amongst other > > wonderful rally cars. > > Wasit Stig who had that "nasty" looking self-customised 99 with the low roof > that looked like a late 80's 900? Wouldn't surprise me if it was. Remember a lot a cars as they are being designed are rallyed as chopped about previous versions. It may have been an early 900 styling excersise badged as, and based on a 99, but shelved for the design that was produced, but then used as an inspiration for the facelifted ones? -- Carl Robson http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
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