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Car terms have been lifted wholesale from carriages
sedan, cabriolet, spider, hackney carriage, turbo, 4x4, fuel injection, spark plugs etc etc
(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 14:59, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
so why specifically are those cars spiders?
what makes them more like spider carriages than a ford marina?

and i'm not buying that spark plugs carriage thing, your having me on
(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:01, Reply)
Because they are convertibles (ie, have a soft removable roof)
like the carriage
(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:02, Reply)
sounds shit to me

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:09, Reply)
Am I? Ye of little faith.
Cars are even rated in horsepower, for goodness sake.
(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:03, Reply)
yeah but carriages didn't have spark plugs, they had candle corks

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:09, Reply)
No, you see
Spark plugs were originally small vulcanised rubber caps that went on the nails on a horse's shoe. They'd put them there to stop the shoes striking up sparks on the road.
(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:11, Reply)
FrankMuirlols

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:13, Reply)
i always wondered about taht

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:15, Reply)
I hate The Two Ronnies.

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:22, Reply)
Spaz wagon etc

(, Fri 29 Jun 2012, 15:02, Reply)

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