4 Mar
2002
4 Mar
'02
8:23 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 philip(a)awale.qc.ca wrote:
On 04-Mar-2002 Pat Finnegan wrote:
<pet peeve>
There were several years in which the Land Rover was (is?) the
suburbanites' town car of choice. There are several million dollars
worth of off-road British iron in this county that's never seen dirt.
My little sister, who grew up riding dirtbikes, shooting 12-ga
shotguns & chewing tobacco with her three brothers, got a Range Rover
for her birthday a couple of years ago. She lives in El Paso, center of
a HUGE unpopulated and unfenced desert.
She sold the Rover 9 months later because her hubby had a conniption
everytime she hopped a curb, and _once_ let her drive around a levelled,
graded construction area in 4wd. Forget taking it into the desert. She
bought a Miata, spent about the value of the Rover souping up the Miata,
and now he just screams about the tickets....
</pet peeve>
I personally believe that a 2-wheel-drive long-wheel-base 3/4-ton
pickup is the best ATV there is.
Doc
P.S. -- All of us grew out of the tobacco-chewing phase fairly early...
Uhm, A hatch-back? Sort of like a car turned
wanna-be SUV.
As opposed to a SUV turned into a wannabe minivan, driven by a wannabe
"backroader".