Re: Vic Tangaras

[Robert Harris <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

David Penna wrote:

> 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!

and falls to pieces like a Tangara?