[Phono-L] OT-vintage car

Andrew Baron andy at popyrus.com
Mon Jul 9 06:41:10 PDT 2007


Back in the early '80s I worked for a British auto mechanic named Roy  
who owned an independent service shop specializing in the higher-end  
British makes (he was a factory trained Jaguar mechanic), as well as  
European exotics, etc.  The shop was maintained so clean that you  
could eat off the floor, almost literally.  No car entered without  
first having the entire drive train steam cleaned under the bonnet  
and underneath from stem to stern.  We wore white uniforms.

He used to have a bumper sticker, which he would carefully apply to  
the rear bumper of any Rolls Royce that came into the shop.  It  
featured the Union Jack on the left accompanied by these words  
printed in a bold empire style font: "The parts falling off of this  
car are of the finest British manufacture".  In more recent years,  
I've heard of this bumper sticker appearing on the occasional MG or  
Mini, but I can't imagine that too many Rolls owners would go for  
this.  However, Roy's customers loved these stickers and kept them on  
display for years.  He wouldn't put them on a less expensive make.

Andy Baron


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