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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Jim Janecek on August 28, 2008, 02:08:52 am

Title: Isard "on the road"
Post by: Jim Janecek on August 28, 2008, 02:08:52 am

here is a car someone is advertising in New York, USA, it is advertised as being "restored" and "on the road".  I can see that it is indeed..."on the road"
but something else is odd about this car, what is it?

(http://www.microcar.org/dc/user_files/198.jpg)

Title: Re: Isard "on the road"
Post by: blob on August 28, 2008, 11:39:26 am

Is it possible a New Yorker's reference of 'restored' actually means 'modified'? Personally I get confused over 'hood' & 'bonnet' or 'fender & 'wing'.

Title: Re: Isard "on the road"
Post by: marcus on September 02, 2008, 03:43:11 pm

Blob, I too sometimes get confused by the strange language used by our friends over the pond! When I visit Texas I am baffled as to why they call the ROAD the PAVEMENT, even though it is not PAVED with PAVING stones. Then they call the PAVEMENT the SIDEWALK, even though no-one ever walks on it because they are driving their GAS (!) -powered AUTOMOBILES on the PAVEMENT ! Sorry, Jim, could not resist!
I have seen other IFAs in "Chitty chitty Bang Bang", the newsletter of the USSR (Unloved Soviet and Socialist Register), I think one or two of their models were based on DKW/Auto Union/NSU