I'm pretty sure by saying that you might do better, you don't mean choosing a Yugo over a Trabant.... or do you ?
Steve; The Trabant is best not referred to due to a tragic chapter in this Forum's history. You may recall a couple of years ago we had a contest in which the 1st. prize was a rare Trabant SS demi-coupe with the fuel efficient 1 H.P. Whinny drive train. Unfortunately the winner was not a visionary; he was unable to see the obvious rate of appreciation this car was destined to accrue and declined to pay us the modest registration/handling/detailing/delivery fee, so it was to be returned to our prize facility. Sadly, immediately after this picture was taken the Trabant was hit head-on by the truck you see approaching in the photo. Apparently our driver nodded off and crossed over center; resulting in him killing the engine.
"Duh" I said while slapping my forehead. I'd forgotten about that debacle. I'm not sure that it's a good issue to recollect on. And when you use the word 'visionary' I'd have to conclude that our Trabant SS Demi Coupe driver might have had a vision problem as to not clearly see the vehicle in front of him and his 1HP drivetrain.
There's always the possibility that the Whinny drive propulsion system laid down a few 'road apples' and the Trabant's tires skidded through them and suffered a loss of control. This could account for this awful accident. Any chance that a salvage title is available ?
Steve
Well Steve....the accident reconstruction officers were not able to rule out the driver being overcome by flatulence as the autopsy did show Beefarino in Mony's stomach contents....and our driver was in fact a Seinfeld fan.
As we had of course equipped the Trabant with "sticky" hi-performance tires, horse pucks were discounted as a cause factor.
A salvage title was coincidentally already in existence on this particular sports coupe, so of course that still is in effect.
Shame. If the one horsepower option had still been on offer I'd have jumped at it.
Interesting how the discussion changed track so rapidly to equine matters. Obviously my original contribution must have alienated a few people.
Oh no, not at all Graeme.....I quite enjoyed your contribution.
Oh good. By the way, have you considered posting that rather attractive photo of yourself as your forum avatar? It's nice when people can put a face to a name, although in this case it is pretty close to the image I had already formed in my mind. (As a long-time SF reader, it is just how I picture a being whose advanced alien intelligence is incomprehensible to us mere humans.)
