misc

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Sorry if I'm behind but....

As for "palio," when I punched it into a web translator it returned 
"racing silk."  Is that a clue?  I don't know what it really means....

Did someone say the Pontiac GTO was based on the Tempest?  Wasn't the 
Tempest the transaxle Pontiac (I'm not making this up)?

And yes, the FIAT 131 was sold in the USA.  My dad bought one new in 
'79.  It was a great car (First car I ever rode in...).  It could 
outrun a BMW 320i, and the only trouble it gave us in 115,000 miles 
(well, that's when the odometer jammed, but I don't count that...) 
was a random fuel pump failure at around 30k miles--but that happened 
on the one occasion that they lent the car to my uncle--my dad 
thought it was pretty funny, throwing the toolbox in the trunk of the 
E-type roadster to go rescue the econobox....  That seems like a 
pretty lame failure to occur at 30k, but my former employer has a '97 
Chevy Tahoe that did about the exact same thing.  Some things never 
change....  And of course my dad's FIAT also had the half-eaten chile 
pepper painted over on the floor under the rear seat; I think I've 
mentioned that before.  Yeah, I'd love to have a 131 today.  I have 
fond memories of sitting on my dad's lap in that car as a 4-year-old 
and steering the car up and down our street while he worked the 
pedals and changed gears...

I think it's bedtime,
Joe Elliott

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