Re: [DML] Italian CarFest in Grapevine Texas

["Brent W. Lundgren" <brentlun@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I always tell people its British.

Northern Ireland is under British rule not Irish.  I use this argument when
I want to take it to a British car show and I am challenged about it being
an American car.

I too would have argued the Italian design for an Italian car show, after
all, that's why you see Ford Cobras at british car shows, its a British
design.

Brent Lundgren
VIN #17006


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:04 AM
Subject: [DML] Italian CarFest in Grapevine Texas


> I went to the italian Carfest in Grapevine Texas today,
> they would not let me put my car in because it is a "Italian" only show.
> Which brings up a good question...
> What country is our car officially from?
>
> I mean, it was Italian designed, Irish assembled, British backed
> with a Swiss/French drive train but the parent company was based in
> the United States.
> So when someone asks me "where is this car from?"
> I am not sure what to say.
> I usually go through the whole spiel....
>
> "Well, it was built in Ireland, but the engine is Volvo based
> but it was an Italian designed car...."
>
> So does anyone know the official answer?
> Is it:
> (1) American
> (2) Italian
> (3) Irish
> (4) British
> (5) Swiss
> (6) French
> (7) Krypton
>
> ...I don't know.
>
> I had a great time at the show, even though I couldn't park the car
> inside it drew a large crowd outside the gate.
> I have the doors up, flux fluxing, hoverboard hovering, and Huey Lewis
> blasting... even though there were Countach's, Diablo's,
> Tesstarossa's, Pantera's, Fiat's and even an Enzo Ferrari - (that is a
> $1,000,000.00 car that can go 0-100 in 3 seconds).
> I think there were more pictures taken of my car than any of them.
>
> While I was walking though the crowd hundreds of feet away from my
> car, I could hear people reminiscing about what they just saw...
> "dude, it even had a real Flux Capacitor! That hoverboard was awesome!
> Did you see the doors? Man that was cool!".
>
> I gotta tell you, I felt really good about the car.
> I even ran into the great guy who sold me the car, he was really
> impressed with all the updates I have done, and people never stop
> telling me how great those new seats I got from DMCH look.
> For those who know Deloreans, they always compliment Stegar's chrome
> rims. They really look fantastic and stand out over the grey painted
> originals.
> This was my first time at a real car show, so it was fun to sit back a
> few feet and listen in to what people were saying.
> It seems that about 90% of everything I heard was total BS.
> It was like a crowd full of "Cliff Claven's" (the postman from CHEERS)
> all being know-it-all's with each other.
> I just say back and giggled as people talked about every misconception
> there is about the car... then if you correct them they argue with you
> so I don't bother half the time....
> Most of you have already done all this but I got a kick out of it.
>
> There is something very cool about a guy who owns a half-a-million
> dollar car telling ME my car is cool.
> Gotta love it.
>
> - Videobob
> VIN#5278
>
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