Re: Where's Cotty?

[Joseph Tainter]

I always thought that British cars up through the 1960s and even early 
1970s were the most fun and interesting cars in the world.

Hence one of my perpetual problems: I tend to buy cars because I think 
they are interesting. Guess what happens then.

When I was a kid in California in the 1960s, MG and Triumph were the 
cars to have. I did manage to get an MG 1100, which was a small sedan (a 
bit bigger than a mini) rather than a sports car, but a whale of a lot 
of fun to drive.

But the Japanese and Germans won because the British cars weren't 
reliable. Same for Fiat in the U.S. market. On my MG, I once went 
through five fuel pumps in ten months. I finally got rid of it when the 
transmission went out -- at about 35,000 miles.

But I still haven't learned to stop buying cars because they are 
interesting.

Joe