I hate the french!!!! - Page 6

HarmanKardon · #51 03-20-2014, 03:11 AM

The French built fantastic cars, like this one:

HarmanKardon · #52 03-20-2014, 03:12 AM

And this one: Most exclusive limousine ever, leaving behind all Duesenbergs and Rolls and Maybachs...

Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale", most valuable classic car limousine. (Most expensive classic car ever is of course

a German one: Mercedes-Benz W 196 R racing car.)

Oerets · #53 03-20-2014, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeke

When non-military representatives finally arrived from Louis XV, we were told a treaty had been arranged with George III and peace existed between the French and the English leaving us on our own.

Fuck the French.

Zeke, I too have a family history steeped and deeply effected by that very history. Being of Acadian and Micmac decent on my Mother side. Having lived with the written and oral history of family's separated at that time and some sent to Louisiana. Mine happen to run away with the Micmac's and hide thus staying in Acadia.

But too realize that no one person alive today had anything to do with those events. I do not hate the English for this separation and land grab, for it is in the past. I just hate that we do not learn from the past in how to better treat one another.

Barney

donquixote99 · #54 03-20-2014, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

And this one: Most exclusive limousine ever, leaving behind all Duesenbergs and Rolls and Maybachs...

Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale", most valuable classic car limousine. (Most expensive classic car ever is of course

a German one: Mercedes-Benz W 196 R racing car.)

Thank-you for repairing a misconception. The name 'Bugatti' sounds Italian, and I always just assumed that's what they were.

HarmanKardon · #55 03-20-2014, 06:11 AM

Dream cars for sure...!

merrylander · #56 03-20-2014, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

The French built fantastic cars, like this one:

Ah le Deux Cheval a Vapeur or loosely translated the two steam horses. Weirdest suspension I have ever seen but then Citroen was noted for odd suspensions.

When Renault came out with this one some smartass here added letters to make it

L'esCargot

I guess because he thought it was that fast

finnbow · #57 03-20-2014, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

And this one: Most exclusive limousine ever, leaving behind all Duesenbergs and Rolls and Maybachs...

Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale", most valuable classic car limousine. (Most expensive classic car ever is of course

a German one: Mercedes-Benz W 196 R racing car.)

Have you been to the car museum over in Muhlhouse? Absolutely fantastic, possibly the best in the world. Ungodly numbers of Bugattis there.

HarmanKardon · #58 03-20-2014, 08:06 AM

I hate generalizations. They are not ignorant, they are insane. The French are this and that, the Germans are this and that - but the USA (according to the stubborn Americans) are the greatest beyond reproach.

Once upon a time a young fifteen years old boy went into a record store and noticed a record which seemed to be interesting. The cover presented a man who looked like a "crazy scientist". He wanted to buy the record but it was too expensive. After some negociations with the seller ("I will probably never sell this strange thing") the boy got it for some three dollars. It was his very first record: Edgard Varèse, Complete Works Vol.1, EMS 401. He went home and wanted to listen to it instantly in the living room. But Mom was ironing there so he had to move into another room with the record player to listen to the record. "I can tell you folks - I almost peed my pants!" he told later in an interview. This man was Frank Zappa.

Everybody who is familar with the IMHO greatest artist of the 20th century knows what an immense impact this music had on his own musical future. I am grateful that this French composer Edgard Varese triggered once what became later the genius Frank Zappa. France meet USA at it's best.

Picture shows Madame Varèse together with Frank.

HarmanKardon · #59 03-20-2014, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Have you been to the car museum over in Muhlhouse? Absolutely fantastic, possibly the best in the world. Ungodly numbers of Bugattis there.

I was there several times, the first time in 1977 when the factory (weaving mill) was threatened by bankruptcy because the owners Hans and Fritz Schlumpf put all their money into their private museum. So the workers occupied the museum and opened it for the public, they also burned as a sign of protest a classic car. "We want jobs, not a bunch of old cars."

There was a big poster in the entrance with the mother of the Schlumpfs: "We dedicate this museum to our beloved mother." And below this: "And WE dedicate this museum to all the workers making it possible."