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G0TEZ > AUTO 03.12.11 01:22l 50 Lines 1818 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 570118G0TEZ
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Subj: Tata 2 U & Fiat 2
Path: DB0FHN<DB0FOR<DB0SIF<DB0MRW<DK0WUE<DB0RES<IK2XDE<IZ3LSV<I0OJJ<GB7CIP
Sent: 111202/2125Z @:GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU #:18720 [Caterham Surrey GBR] $:570118G0
From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
To : AUTO@WW
Running on air ?
I remember my father's compressed air drill from the 1920s. It was an
amazing beast! You could hold it against something at low revs and get
high torque or pop it through a thin bit of metal or wood in an instant at
very high revs.
As for the Tata, you probably mean the one which the experts on the Top
Gear programme held up for a very good laugh a few months back but here in
the UK where fuel costs a fortune and cities like London have the
Congestion Charge which the Tata is exempt from, people would give it
serious consideration.
After all, people have been driving the Fiat 500 for years now.
I know such tiny cars would seem pointless in the USA but they are taken
seriously in the UK.
Hands up if you remember the Corgi, the Isetta,tthe Messerschmitt and the
Heinkel cars.
Does anyone remember when Fiat which had a name for being rubbish, sold
it's production line to the USSR so that they could build cars using their
FIRE engine (Fully Integrated Robotic Engineering) on a robotic production
line. The Russians turned the feeble Fiat into the solid as a tank Lada.
The Lada was the butt of many jokes but I have driven a few and have found
nothing but praise for them. Better than the Fiat and half the price.
Fiat have improved enormously since those days but, after all, you can't
have a cheap Russian import beating Italian pride. They have never managed
to make Fiat as cheap as Lada though.
As for toy engines, I can't comment. Like most farm boys, my brother and I
were driving around either a Fordson Major or a Case, pulling a
muckspreader or something equally exciting, often in the bitter cold.
Ta ta for now.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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