Let me get this straight...
This is legal because it's NOT a station wagon...
While this is not because it IS a station wagon...
Can someone explain that to me...? :P
Stan
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Let me get this straight...
This is legal because it's NOT a station wagon...
While this is not because it IS a station wagon...
Can someone explain that to me...? :P
Stan
Stan Clayton
www.dauntlessracing.com
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You have to squint your eyes, Stan.
Personally, I'm going to begin referring to my old 528iT as an "estate car". I'd post more, but Jeeves and I are off to polo...
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Actually, the 1800ES is a bad example... SCCA would have a tough time excluding that car from IT based on the fact that it's a wagon. Many, many (pre-Improved Touring) years ago, they said it was a sports car by putting it in E and F production!Can someone explain that to me...? :P
Stan [/b]
Meanwhile, hope I'm not offending anyonebut I have to say it... that BMW is just butt-ugly. What were they thinking???
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Volvo 142 calling the Bimmer butt-ugly?
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot...
Stan
Stan Clayton
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Yowbutt... Volvo's are supposed to be ugly. BMW did it by accident! :PVolvo 142 calling the Bimmer butt-ugly?
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot...
Stan
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IIRC... the English call them a brake, the French call them a break.... in both cases a station wagon of sorts. The "shooting" parts comes from just that.... a sporty wagon that an English Gent could put his long guns in to go out bird hunting or shoot some clays.That is correct Jake, a shooting brake! I must admit, while I know the term and use it, I don't know where it comes from. Anyone know? [/b]
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I had a 2000 M Coupe. Best car I have ever owned.
The neighbor's kid called it....The Flying Shoe.
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hey, Greg! go ahead and call it a shooting brake. There ain't enough of us around to know what that is!You have to squint your eyes, Stan.
Personally, I'm going to begin referring to my old 528iT as an "estate car". I'd post more, but Jeeves and I are off to polo...
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I can totally see the Volvo being used to hold the rifle of a shooting gentleman...Let me get this straight...
This is legal because it's NOT a station wagon...
While this is not because it IS a station wagon...
Can someone explain that to me...? :P
Stan [/b]
And the BMW holding a sawed off shotgun...LOL.
Nothing says "Stubby" like that thing!
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hey, Greg! go ahead and call it a shooting brake. There ain't enough of us around to know what that is!
[/b]Maybe we could form a club, with a gang signs and all.
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I always thought the M Coupe was kinda like an MGB GT on steriods. Personally I think they are really cool; odd looking but not ugly.
Of course, I also thought the no station wagon rule had to do with not wanting all that extra glass out there just waiting to be broken. (This is based on nothing more than it was the only reason I could think of
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more detail on the origin of shooting brake....
Shooting Brake is named after the sporting estate wagons favored by Europe’s landed gentry for hunting parties in the 1920s and 1930s.
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