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The Ferraris are just so much scrap iron.
They are no more a project than the WW1 Grand Prix racing Renault bonnet(hood) from a few months ago.
Doesn't matter what the provenance is, there comes a point when you have to say, "Terribly sorry old man, but that is junk".
Obviously, we all have our own views of just where that point is...
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I'm telling you. Sex appeal, knowledge of cars, and writing skills like that? Tell me she's not every guy's dream girl.
11/07/08
Sure beats writing software help, which is what I do in my other life.
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As we know, over time things "even out." So you, walking around on the ground, will someday return to the ground and deteriorate from flesh to goo and then a kind of smelly mud.
So if you find a skeleton on the ground, you can be fairly certain which way that entropy is heading. Yes, those bones are deteriorating into a uniformity with their environment.
Now for the Italians: when you find a Ferrari skeleton--or bits of a Ferrari skeleton, which way is it headed?
That is correct. The density is heading toward dust, not metal. You do not have any Ferraris. You have ex-Ferraris or former Ferraris. The same way you do not have a "person" when you have a skeleton. Indeed, you are in a negative state x 4 of Ferrarity.
So your hellish task is to assemble up to four functioning living persons from skeletons, random bones and broken bits of stuff.
I submit that even Dr. Frankenstein failed with ONE fairly intact collection of bits.
I submit that you cannot reverse entropy.
I submit that when it comes to negative state x 4 of Ferrarity, one World of Tomorrow crazy car loses the match.
Check. And mate.
Check, please!
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I would go for the Citroen in a second. .and so I'm voting for the Ferrari's'. They're just. .scary. Those Ferrari's can are in the express lane on the Motostrata to hell.
11/06/08
Giant Ferrarisaurus sculpture, it is.
11/06/08
of course the ferraris are asking for a Magnum-sized lip-handle, but i think the SM is wanting said stache plus some twisty waxed tips, so as to rest your cigarette holder against while you wrestle with the helm's copious torque steer escaping from STEN-gun wielding OAS nutcases. "there is a lady in the car, damn your eyes!" you'd curse as they proceed to pepper two of your tires (but mostly the pavement, bystanders, and a cafe that the OAS guys disliked because the croissants were too crusty).
because look, even with gunky carbs and lacking armor, that SM is going to get you away from danger and back to trying to count which Republic your nation is on much faster than a troupe of Ferrari shells.
now, had DeGaulle been driving the SM in some anachronistic alternate reality, maybe he would have sported a moustache so manly, it would have driven the car for him while he pulled out a MAS-38 and blazed away.
11/06/08
The SM looks easy enough for an S&M. Hell, the suspension works, and that's half the battle right there!
In short, the winner is the Ferraris if you have to take the high road with 'em, but the S&M if you don't.
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Anyway, I decided on the SM, figuring it was probably a flood car or something, considering the "dirty fuel tank" and "fuel delivery issues", as well as the current status of the carburetors. The only thing worse than Fritalian Hell is Water Damaged Fritalian Hell.
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The Citroen sounds like a pretty decent deal, actually, considering it's an SM.
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Sorry, but those Ferraris can't dethrone the Citroen for me. The SM would at least be something you'd be damn proud to drive when you [never] finished it. People would at least see the irony of cruising in the Citroen. Rebuild those Ferraris, and you'd still have to grow a bad molestache and wear shorty-shorts. It wouldn't be worth the loss of dignity, because people wouldn't be able to see the ironic humour in rocking a Magnum P.I. Ferrari. They'd assume you actually thought it was cool, and pull their children closer and tell you never to go within 500 feet of elementary schools. So while the Hell quotient is deliciously high, it can't overcome the zero "Cool" quotient.
This may be the only war in which France is invincible.
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