Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Cars, engines... Date: 13 Dec 2025 06:18:32 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10guib0$1ai5r$1@dont-email.me> <10h15ek$2cgcb$1@dont-email.me> <10h6jb8$5cd2$1@dont-email.me> <51ahjklsu5lfhmac7rm518jqgb7g2h2n5c@4ax.com> <10hbi4e$1di3b$12@dont-email.me> <10hgubc$2r3rh$12@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6xjqG3FELaYZBFPZvEp1jwsZTNp/dCo3DwfNNX7kaCFfVEOEAl Cancel-Lock: sha1:G0/q5KWa/XXuT+GbCXBNAa5afAg= sha256:j1FwVD7XcQ1SfxfPflgnmS2EDXlydeWM4kBv/QlPDnQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78965 alt.comp.os.windows-11:28357 On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:13:48 -0500, c186282 wrote: > Old MG Midget ? > > A girl next door had one ... she always drove it with her shoes off > so she could FEEL the pedals properly. > > Road devil, you didn't want to ride with her. Or behind her. Or > beside her. Or same road ... I had a Sprite, the AH version of the Midget. While giving my brother in law a ride one evening he asked 'how does this little piece of shit handle?' I did a 180 and motored off in the opposite direction. "Oh" His father had a thing for Checkers and he destroyed a couple of them. Couldn't drive for shit. He managed to roll one outside of Mayfield KY in '69 when we were supposedly headed for Mexico. High times in Mayfield! Everyone in town went down to the garage to ogle the big, silver wreck. "Is that one of them that Mercedes Benzs?"