Re: Vic Tangaras

[David Penna <djpenna@one.net.au>]

David Bromage wrote:
> 
> Robert Harris (bob@fastlink.com.au) wrote:
> > Just say you bought a car eg a falcon.
> 
> > You did a bit of work on it, put on spoilers fins tint the windows put an
> > ALCO twin turbo supercharged V 12 diesel engine in it and renamed it "DAVID'S
> > CHICK MAGNET" instead of Ford Falcon.
> 
> > What would every one call it (besides laughing at it) ?
> > Answer a falcon.
> 
> Because it was a Falcon as built.
> 
> The 4D may look like a Tangara, but it is NOT a Tangara. I look a bit like
> my Dad, but I'm not him. You can obviously see the 4D's parentage, but
> they are not the same thing.
> 
> The only place I have ever heard it called a Vic Tangara is in this
> newsgroup, and only in 1998!
> 
Well after reading this thread, I thought I'd put my bit in.

To the committed railfans out there it is undeniably a 4D.

To the rest of us....
it looks like a Tangara
it sounds like a Tangara
it smells like a Tangara
it feels like a Tangara
(it even screeches like a Tangara)
so therefore we call it a Tangara!