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To: KeyLargo

Kinda like that show except when they call an engine a motor. You’d think they would know better.


5 posted on 08/07/2012 12:44:14 PM PDT by Current Occupant (If you're not pi$$ed, you ain't paying attention!)
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To: Current Occupant

“Kinda like that show except when they call an engine a motor. “

Yeah! But they do like old Harley “Enginecycles!” My preferred term is “Mill.”


12 posted on 08/07/2012 12:59:08 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Current Occupant
Kinda like that show except when they call an engine a motor.

Harlan Fengler, Chief Steward of the Indianapolis 500 in the 1960s, was arguing with a race driver (I forget who it was) about the use of the term motor for engine.

The driver told Fengler "Then why don't they call it the Indianapolis Engine Speedway?

16 posted on 08/07/2012 1:07:10 PM PDT by nascarnation
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