Two Hoops

[Giovanni Michelotti <pelhamwest@domain.elided>]

Bon giorno Stag owners everywhere.

I follow with great interest the discussion on the two  hoops and now it is
time to let you inside my little  secret.

It is 1966  and I be busy in my study in Turin. The blueprint for my
bambino the Stag it  spreads out over my drawing board. There is perhaps
one finale detail to add. Torquatrol  or no torquatro. I ponder but  I
cannot think too straight as I  feel , how you say, a bit peckish so I call
to my wife ‘ Maria, some spaghetti please.’
She brings it . It is delicious! fantistico!  Then disaster it strikes. As
I eat I spill two small pieces onto the blueprint. ‘ Mama mia! ‘ I scream ‘
the bambino it is ruined!’. 
Maria, she comes running. ‘Giovanni, don’t worry’ she says soothingly and
she wipe the spaghetti off the paper with her apron but two brown stains
they stay behind.

The next day I send the blueprint to Coventry and production begins. Soon I
am invited there to inspect the first prototype. I look underneath and see
2 small rings of metal. I say to Harry Webster ‘Harry, the car is bella but
whatta the 2 oops for?’
 Harry , he look at me strange. ‘Search me Micho,’ he say ‘ but you put
them on the blueprint. If you ask me they look like 2 bleeding spaghetti
hoops.’

And that is it. Now the whole world knows my little secret and Signore
Glenn I claim the prize.

Arrivaderci

Giovanni