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| 1171.1 | | OVAL::ALFORDJ | Ice a speciality | Wed Aug 01 1990 09:51 | 4 |
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Please describe a Dodge Charger, and I'll tell you if I've seen one...
The most likely places would be around the American Airbases.
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| 1171.2 | Not many... | CURRNT::PREECE | Hanging on in quiet desperation... | Wed Aug 01 1990 12:08 | 9 |
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Seen one or two, but, as Jane says, I think they were mostly personal
imports by US forces personnel who couldn't stand the transition to
"real" cars!! ;-))
Ian
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| 1171.3 | Dukes of Hazzard? | IOSG::MARSHALL | Harry Palmer | Wed Aug 01 1990 12:37 | 4 |
| Is the "Dukes of Hazzard" car a Dodge Charger? If so, I've seen one, painted
in the same style, in East Berkshire. Only the one though...
Scott
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| 1171.4 | | SHAPES::BUCKLEYC | Bareback on the Shark | Wed Aug 01 1990 13:37 | 3 |
| I've got a 'Matchbox' one somewhere.
Chris
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| 1171.5 | | WLDWST::MARTIN_T | | Wed Aug 01 1990 15:26 | 7 |
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Okay,okay,I get the point of you all. It would seem as if no-one likes
good 'ol Detroit Steel. Indications show that cars with not much
imagination and body style are the norm over there.At least here in the
U.S. one can see about 30 different kinds of cars on one road.
Hasnt anyone ever heard that variety is the SPICE of LIFE!!
But of course we have the right to our own opinions.
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| 1171.6 | Not much imagination and body style! | IOSG::MARSHALL | Harry Palmer | Wed Aug 01 1990 15:35 | 15 |
| How dare you sir! What an outrageous thing to say! I agree that Britain has
been poisoned by an influx of American clone-boxes (Ford, Vauxhall, ...) but
British cars are the most gracefully styled in the world!
It's just that the best ones aren't made anymore ;-(
I defy you to find an American car more beautiful to behold than an MGA or
Austin Healey or MG TF or SS100 or XK120 or TR3 or ... (The list is endless).
As to my current / future *British* car, send me your mailstop and I'll send
you a picture.
Scott
(Ok, ok, for those in the know I confess the Moss has a Ford engine...)
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| 1171.7 | Now *that* was a film... | PEKING::HASTONM | Emm | Wed Aug 01 1990 15:37 | 3 |
| RE .1
The same car as in the movie `Vanishing Point'
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| 1171.8 | I'm not often right, but I might be wrong | RUTILE::SMITH_A | No-one puts baby in the corner | Wed Aug 01 1990 17:25 | 3 |
| re .7
I thought that was supercharged Dodge Challenger ?
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| 1171.9 | Volt-face! | DOOZER::JENKINS | | Wed Aug 01 1990 18:49 | 7 |
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The Dodge Charger? Was that some brand of "trickle charger"?
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| 1171.10 | a polite rebuttal... | SKIWI::EATON | Marketing - the rubber meets the sky | Thu Aug 02 1990 04:26 | 15 |
| Don't forget that, in these days of international travel and large
multi-national corporations that some of us have actually driven the god-awfull
pieces of tin that litter the roads in the US of A. Mind you, there has
been a marked improvement in quality and (minor details) such as road-holding
and performance over the last 5 years. Nothing to do with the Japanese mind
you...
Drive a good European designed and made car and you will appreciate the
difference.
Mind you the Charger made a good films (Vanishing Point), although the obvious
point of the film was to draw attention (in the final scene) to the clear
similarity between the Charger and the bulldozer.
just kidding, honest ;-)
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| 1171.11 | Dodgems did you say | HAMPS::LINCOLN_J | | Thu Aug 02 1990 10:13 | 6 |
| We do have fairground Dodgems, and being electric might need charging.
Is this it?. They're brightly painted and have the vaguest steering
you'll ever come accross.
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| 1171.12 | you call big tin boxes, interesting ??? | OVAL::ALFORDJ | Ice a speciality | Thu Aug 02 1990 11:42 | 6 |
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Re: .5
You have only 30 different types of cars in America ???
We have far in excess of that available to us in Britain :-)
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| 1171.13 | Much prefer the Challenger! | TPLAB::KENNEDY_C | The same old clich� | Mon Aug 13 1990 09:29 | 8 |
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Everyone seems to make the same mistake:-
Dukes of Hazard, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry - Dodge Charger
Vanishing point - Dodge Challenger
Now, can anyone remember the registration of Kowolski's Challenger???
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| 1171.14 | the other sort of charger | HEART::MACHIN | | Mon Nov 15 1993 15:03 | 10 |
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I thought I'd make this note a little more relevant to those
Island-dwellers who haven't dosdged any Chargers lately.
I'd like a battery charger that allows me to jump start the car off the
mains when necessary.
Can I get one, or is this beyond the bounds of technology?
Richard.
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| 1171.15 | | OASS::STDBKR::Burden_d | Synchromesh gearboxes are for wimps | Mon Nov 15 1993 16:19 | 6 |
| I have a regular battery charger and on a number of occasions,
I've let it charge the battery for 15-30 minutes then started
the car. I'm not sure what type of load this puts on the charger
but it hasn't died either.
Dave
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| 1171.16 | Yes at a price | WELCLU::YOUNG | Policemen aren't nasty people | Tue Nov 16 1993 11:26 | 6 |
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You can get special chargers that will deliver starting currents,
traders use them all the time. but I believe they are quite expensive.
Richard
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| 1171.17 | | WOTVAX::BANKSM | Out to Lunch | Wed Nov 17 1993 09:39 | 3 |
| It's a lot cheaper to keep a spare battery charged up in your garage
and "jump" off that. Commercial jump-starters are usually just that...
a regular battery charger connected to a big battery.
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| 1171.18 | | HEART::MACHIN | | Wed Nov 17 1993 13:57 | 7 |
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RE: last
Good idea. I'll get a new battery for the car, and keep the old
one charged up in the relatively warm garage.
Richard.
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