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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: plas man on July 27, 2015, 04:02:20 PM
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simple ,
NSU = No Sodden Use .
come on guys give it your best ;)
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Fiat was always 'Fix it again, Toni'.
Lotus, 'Lots of trouble, usually serious'.
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Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious
Quite a few offensive ones for BMW!
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BOND = Boring Old Nasty Deathtrap.
PEEL = Puny Engined Ego Lifter.
TOURETTE = Totally Old Under Rated Engined Threewheeler Travelling Experience.
GORDON = Glad Our Rich Dotes On Novelties.
FRISKY = Funny Relic Is Seen Kaput Yonder. OR Fun Ride In Small Keeled Yacht.
AC PETITE = A Cool Piece Except The Inside's Too Exiguous.
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BSA = Bits Stuck Anywhere
And, drifting well off topic:
SABENA = Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
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DOT motorcycles - was meant to stand for devoid of trouble
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LSD actually stood for "Pounds, Sillings and Pence" , not for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide as it does now!
(For younger readers the £ is actually a stylised L, for Livre (Latin for pound) the D was from the Latin too: Denarii their equivalent of a penny.)
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DKW, der kleine wunder
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Ford = Fixed Often Repaired Daily
BSA = Best Scrap Arround
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TRIUMPH - of hope over experience
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REME = Rough Engineering Made Easy
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I thought BSA was 'Bloody sore arse', but I concede that it might not be best.