>>>Actually the Traction Avant was a fine looking car indeed (not so their 2CV though <g>).
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>>Did you know that "2CV" stands for "Deux chevaux" or "2 horse-power"?
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>The famous "Umbrella with four wheels", one of the few cars that look equally nice after a fender bender. That thing had personality, and it's a pity that Citroën didn't feel obliged to rebuild it a la Beetle and Mini.

Known as the "Tin Snail" hereabouts.
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>And the new Beetle isn't so new - I've seen pictures of it in 1994.

Sure - never said it was BRAND-new! I just like the looks.

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>>>As for the PT Cruiser. I always thought it looks like a hearse. Ugly if you ask me. But to each his own.
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>My wife likes the design of the Cruiser. She thinks it looks really cute - a good mix of the rounded shapes of the forties and the today's round shapes.

Trouble is most the PTs around here ARE driven by women! Bit emancipating. I call mine Rocky ("and the Lord spake, 'Verily thou art PT and upon thy Rocky I shall build my church'") :-)

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>>Well mine's a cranberry-red hearse then! I actully like the look of hearses. Nearly bought a Daimler hearse with a RR engine in my youth.
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>There's a nice quote from one of our cult movies - "The marathon runners run the lap of honor" (dunno how and whether it was actually translated)... about a five generation all-male family having a funeral service:
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>(after measuring, the guy says:)
>- the deceased was very long
>- he was tall, not long!
>- when one is alive, he is tall; when he dies, he is long.
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>Now why do I mention this? There are a couple of limo services in the neighborhood, and their black limos really remind me of it.

The Yellow Pages are chock-full of stretch limo services in Brighton. One Saturday night I saw more than I'd ever seen together even in NY! It's really catching on here: hen-nights, sex cruises (Jeez, my 9=year-old daughter's friend was even taken on here birthday treat in one this week!)