Re: [alfa] Victory by Design

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Voiturette". The French term for an open automobile (I believe it only 
applies to open cockpit cars) is voiture. A voiturette is a "little" 
voiture. Between the wars, there was a racing class for small, open 
cockpit cars (sort of like Formula 3 today) called the voiturette 
class. Mostly 4-cylinders and less than 1500 cc capacity if memory 
serves. OTOH, the French sold, before WWII, a number of brands of very 
small cars which they called voiturettes and the British called 
cycle-cars. These were tiny little cars with little more than 
motorcycle engines in them. Amilcar was a particularly famous French 
brand. If you ever see a 1953 French comedy (and a very funny one at 
that) called "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" with Jacques Tati, the silly and 
very ugly looking little backfiring car he drives that seems as if it 
has only room in it for one person, is an Amilcar Voiturette. But this 
has nothing to do with what Mr. deCadenet  was discussing. Hope this 
clears it up for you.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6

On Jan 10, 2004, at 9:42 AM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:20:13 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Mark Manley" <WarpOMatic@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Victory by Design
>
>  	I was watching some of the Victory by Design shows
> and the host used a term I've never heard. He used it when
> referring to both cars and race events I think. My guess at
> the spelling would be "watcherette" or "vocherette" maybe.
> Anyone out there have a de Cadenet to Mark translator?
> 	
>                                     Mark Manley
>
> Tulsa,Ok
> '84 GTV6
> X1/9 x3
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