Re: JMG - one for Bob Murphy

For some unfathomable reason many Italian and French luxury makes had right hand srive.  Examples were Bugatti, Delahaye, Delage, prewar Alfas, Hispano-Suiza and Maserati.

While I was in Italy I noticed that cars were aprked evrywhere there was a No Parking sign.  Someone explained to me that if it were impossible to park there they would not have put up the sign.

Herman

IS Edit wrote:

It's gotta be Eyetalian. They had RHD on their heavy vehicles for many years. The doors on the right indicate a LHD country. No one else but a dago would put a radiator on a trolley bus, 'cept maybe a Frog. Looking at the size of those tyres, I'd say the rear axles have single tyres. Big windows like the ITs favour. What a trippy looking machine that is. Those two rear axles and the half cab with that Pommie looking windscreen crack me up. Looks like the wheels might in fact be spiders with demountable rims. I give up. Where is it John? Speaking of Eyetalians, I was speaking with a WWII vintage US Army Ranger who fought in North Africa before he went to Sicily, Italy, Normandy, etc etc. They saw a lone Italian soldier a kilometre out to their front and called in the sighting. Suddenly all hell breaks loose and a full artillery barrage comes in on the Italian who starts running all over the desert landscape. They fire and fire and finally the Ranger CO calls up and says why you doing all that for one guy? One guy HQ said? You said there was a battalion to your front. From then on until the end of the war they always referred to Italians as dagoes. Bob Murphy  

----- Original Message -----

From: John Gilmour

To: [email protected]

Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:25 PM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] JMG - one for Bob Murphy

 Bob

A half cab that is not of British origin

Any ideas, anyone.

Strictly speaking off topic somewhat but we oldies need brain teasers
once in a while

John Gilmour

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