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The words "French" and "Engineering" are mutually exclusive IMO

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Oh, I don't know -- I know that people love to bash French engineering, but the French companies produced some very technically impressive vehicles.

[/ QUOTE ]I strongly agree, Sammy. Their cars are sometimes pretty strange, but don't bash "French engineering" just because of that. Engineering is a very broad field and, in my field of engineering (civil), the French have been in the forefront for 150 years. Ideas like reinforced earth and roller-compacted concrete were developed by the French and took years before they were accepted by American engineers. I still remember the first use of reinforced earth in this country by I-70 designers on Vail Pass in the 1970s. Now both are state-of-the-art and taught in every civil engineering school in the U.S. So, there is "French engineering" and there are "French cars"--they are not one and the same.
 
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[Seller says "Submit Best Offer"

Would $5.00 be an insult?

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Why not be really, really nasty.

Offer to swap an AMC Pacer for it....
 
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....and use it as a Cadillac "Can Opener" in traffic when th' idiot blue-hairs pull annoying maneuvers.

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I think you'd be a greater danger to yourself.

The blue-hairs would roll right over you and the Dauphine (was THAT a car I hit/sideswiped/backed over/ran off the road/killed?) and barely notice the little bump....

That's awright, dear, t'was nothing that mattered.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

and go merrily on their way, as always....
 
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...So, there is "French engineering" and there are "French cars"--they are not one and the same.

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Mia Culpa... I wuz generalising with regard to "engineering"... I'll make concession.

Or to put it 'nother way: Touché.
 
Pro'lly right James. I should better join th' Hummer crowd and just terrorise 'em by duct tapin' a cell 'phone to me nodge an' lookin' at a daily, spread across th' steering wheel.

"If it's 'snow bird season', why can't we shoot em?"
 
I once owned a fiat 500 for about 3 days.

When I asked my dad to help me trnsplant a ford 289 (that he had laying around) driveline into it, he made me get rid of it. He said I'd kill myself if I ever got the engine installed.

I still want a micro-car with a big v-8 in it! And I still believe it wouldn't have taken much work to get one it there either!
 
I remember pushing a Dauphine after my sister's wedding.
Her Brother-in-Law gave me a ride in it until it ran out of
gas.We were pushing it accross an intersection in our tuxes.At least it was light!

- Doug
 
Well, we went up to Lynchburg, TN yesterday to have lunch at Mrs Bobo's Boarding House (a famous old restaurant) & I went out of the way to see if the Dauphine was still there. It was.
 
I also noticed a Dauphine,just off of Hwy.20,on the way to Sacremento.Strange how things like this run in spurts.

- Doug
 
Karma. Kismet....

"Pumping Irony."
 
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