03-04-2003, 06:15 PM
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Location: Miami Lakes, Florida, U.S.A.,
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Flying Freddie and Dan Stryffeler are on the right track.
Here is my take on it, you guys remember back in 1973 during the gas crisis, the same tree-hugging a-holes started making a big noise about motor racing. That was until the info came out that the gas used by those going to football, basketall and baseball games amounted to more than 100 times than all other sports put together. That killed the objection over motorsports. It was then that the Jap cars became popular, small, underpowered tin cans.
It also depends where you live. I remember first noticing Suburbans on a hunting (another thorn for tree-huggers) trip to Texas. They seemed appropriate for the terrain. And if you got the bucks, more power to you. In 1995 I drove my new XJ6 Jag to the Florida Panhandle and needed to take it in for service and found that the closest dealer was hundreds of miles away. Everyone there drove pickup trucks. That was OK with me. Different strokes for different folks.
Back in the early 1980s, the Cocaine Cowboys in Miami popularized the Big Broncos. Shortly thereafter everyone had a Bronco. I had one then and got hooked on SUVs. Had many since then.
I predict that soon the same people will be on some other kick. That is, unless they go the route of the abortion wackos and they become radical, shooting the occasional SUV owner just to further their cause.
My dad always used to say that at any given moment, there are 20 million idiots living among us.
Bob
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