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Vitesse · 01-14-2002, 09:59 AM

Vitesse means speed in French, but it's also the name of one of my favorite cars - the Triumph Vitesse, which was basically a little Triumph Herald economy car with a six-cylinder engine shoehorned in. Anyway I used to really like it, around the time I started posting on message boards. I still do, but nowadays I'm mostly taken to Italian machinery - I own a Fiat 128 and until recently, an immaculate Fiat 131 Mirafiori TC sedan (sold it less than two weeks ago). Those cars are virtually extinct in the USA and getting pretty rare in most other places too - thanks to typical Italian rust and quality issues and not being sports cars.

If there were such a thing, I'd be the all-knowing treebeard of old obscure cars.

But that's how I came to the name Vitesse.

01-14-2002, 09:59 AM	#11
Vitesse Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas New Yorkith Posts: 13	Vitesse means speed in French, but it's also the name of one of my favorite cars - the Triumph Vitesse, which was basically a little Triumph Herald economy car with a six-cylinder engine shoehorned in. Anyway I used to really like it, around the time I started posting on message boards. I still do, but nowadays I'm mostly taken to Italian machinery - I own a Fiat 128 and until recently, an immaculate Fiat 131 Mirafiori TC sedan (sold it less than two weeks ago). Those cars are virtually extinct in the USA and getting pretty rare in most other places too - thanks to typical Italian rust and quality issues and not being sports cars. If there were such a thing, I'd be the all-knowing treebeard of old obscure cars. But that's how I came to the name Vitesse.