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Letter From The UK: The Neutering of Our Car Culture



From once mighty horsepower machines to the four-door people haulers of today . . . 
When looking at our current car culture, does it seem as if something is missing" 
Geoff Maxted of DriveWrite Automotive Magazine examines in this Letter From The UK.

Anyone who has ever undergone the procedure will remember their first vasectomy as if it were yesterday, because: 1. It was their first vasectomy and 2. They are reminded to never, ever do anything like that again.
At The Clinic
On the fateful day, the subject enters what appears to be a perfectly normal medical building. As this writer recalls, although it?s a bit of a blur, the patient enters via a door marked ?Lions?. Just inside the door is a cardboard box into which the subject is obliged to place all of his bravado; the time for joking is over. Consciously carried on the conveyor belt of fear, the subject, fully awake, eventually encounters the surgeon who appears to be using for surgery the ACME Home Boy Scout Kit, comprising of a multi-tool penknife (the one with the thing to get stones out of horses? hooves) and a soldering iron.
Time passes in recovery, during which the subject suspects his testes have been craftily replaced by two Cantaloupe melons, and now finds that he walks very much in the manner of John Wayne. When it is time to go he exits through a door marked ?Lambs? and enters a quiet space with plants, a tinkling waterfall, and birdsong.
The Plymouth Superbird, inspired by the Road Runner and de...
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