RE: Roughing it

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> Couple of people have recently posted variants of a stripper-car spec,
this
> one Joe's: "GTA version (all I need is 4 seats and a/c and sound system)".
>
>  I wonder (well, no, I don't, but rhetorically I might) whether they
really
> don't want motor-driven windows and central locking and things like that.
Or,
> to put it another way, give it the time-machine twist: imagine the 'big
guys'
> in 1964 listening to a focus-group around a steel-bodied Sprint GT,
complete
> with a heater and foot ventilation and a place in the dash for an
aftermarket
> mono radio, who are saying "all I need is a/c and sound system". So, the
big
> guys build it, call it the GTA, and our Intrepid Driver sets out for
> Spa-Francorchamps.
>
>  Imagine an average noseheavy front wheel drive small car with, say,
255/35-18
> tires, parallel parking without power assist.
>
>  Oh, yes.

American version of stripper car = no cupholders.

bs

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