GR translation: My old short was a gasgobbler all right

[Joe Allonby]

The Hudson Terraplane was the iconic gangster car of American movies.


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> a-and of course, ESSO which Slothrop's "short" liked so well is that
> standard oil, from the Rockefellers,
> whereas Shell is "royal dutch shell" right,the foreign (to America)
> provenance of which apparently gave Slothrop's Terraplane (this was a real
> car name, i believe) indigestion
> -- but did Bromo(-Seltzer) really help internal combustion?
>