Rolls Royce versus 68 Satellite

[Richard Cranium]

Pardon me RC,would you have any Grey Poupon?

My mustard of choice.

 

[Runcharger]

It doesn't matter if that Rolls was worth in the millions I would still prefer to drive an old Satellite.

 

[jimbosride]

A friend up here in Washington had a Rolls Royce repair shop ( The Rolls Connection). The engines were all sleeved and big $$ in tooling. He had cars in the shop for over 3 years. They would come to him on transporters to get fixed.

Allot of them sold the car to him after they got the price to rebuild the engine. I saw recipes for brake jobs over 5K. I asked him where he got his training. He said a dealership decided to start selling them in the 70S and sent some of there mechanics to school to maintain them. When the car line was dropped he got the names of all the people that bought cars or brought in there's for service. He said he was also able to keep the parts license from rolls. He sold the business 7 years ago.

 

[Kern Dog]

I confess to saying it to a few Beemer drivers back in the day...

Beemers are BMW motorcycles

Yeah? Maybe the terms are regional?
Every reference to Beemers I have heard seemed to be in reference to the car. I don't think that I have heard anyone speak of BMW motorcycles that way, though I don't know many people who ride....except a former co worker that had a pimped-out Harley. That one looked tacky as all hell with all the chrome stuff on it.

 

[DeltaV]

Maybe the terms are regional?

For sure, just like people saying rims instead of wheels or hub caps instead of wheel covers. They are regional IMO just like dizzy or satty.

Anyway, the Brits are the ones that started the Beemers for BMW motorcycles a long time ago. The Bimmer thing for cars supposedly started in U.S.A. sometime in the 1970's.

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Digress
I'm glad we have 'Mopar' or 'Dodge'...it's so much easier to say than Stellantis which sounds like a pharmaceutical.